"Love/sex is what makes us human" Wrong. It's the obsession with rectangles. look around you and count the number of rectangles you see.
#looked up and thought ‘that can’t be hard’#and then my eyes widened with horror as I realized the sheer number of rectangles everywhere#I’m . I’m horrified
It's a good shape!
It’s built directly into the English language — and a lot of other Indo-European ones, because the correlation goes way way back. The following words are all cognate with rectangle:
correct
direct
raja
rectify
rectitude
regal (also regime, reign, rex, etc.)
regulation
reich
rich
right
rule
It’s one of those deeply ingrained metaphors: something is neat & orderly IFF it is laid out in straight lines & right angles. (and why are they right angles, hmm?) This is also conflated with moral… well, righteousness: things “should” be neat & orderly. And the person in charge is Guy Who Puts Things In Straight Lines. (it’s not a coincidence that the head of state and the tool you use to draw straight lines are both called rulers.)
Anyway, this all goes back to how intersecting right angles cause vampires to have seizures. The cultural fixation on rectangles outlived its usefulness once vampires went extinct, but by then it was securely lodged in the collective unconscious & we’re just stuck with it now.

























