Templated reactions

Perfectly said. Almost all our reactions are templated, repeating what’s already been:

“Every day I see dead people. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead — people without eyes, without heads; people with factory-made feelings and standard reactions; people with newspaper brains, television souls, and schoolbook ideals.”

Charles Bukowski. “The Sun, Here I Am. Interviews”