Yes, but only if literally all the people said that. Progress happens because the vast masses adopt the new ideas of a very small number of innovators.
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And we'd all be much better off for it.
Then we'd be extinct you mean.
At least I’d have my own hut or cave!
Looks at grass "It is what it is" Sleeps outside
Would we be happier?
...*had* said to themselves...
“It is what it is” is what my boss says when he wants me to shut up
Eurema's Dam by R. Lafferty
https://ebookslib.org/sf/12898-eurema-s-dam.html
In this comic science fiction story, the author proposes that the only people who are truly inventive are those who are too inept to do anything else. The hero, unable to do simple math, invents a calculator at age six. He goes on to create any number of useful inventions, including intelligent robots who mock him as a buffoon.
...on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
- Douglas Adams
I think saying that is just human nature. There's not much you can do to change human nature. It is what it is.
The interesting thing is that anatomically modern Homo sapiens appeared about 300,000 years ago and did live exclusively as hunter-gatherers for about 280,000 of those years.
Which highlights the importance of education and learning about the things people learned before us.
It was what it was
Then they all got bored and invented the Wii U
Being invented by cavemen actually explains a lot. 🤔
Given the state of current events, that might not necessarily be a bad thing. Well, medicines/vaccines notwithstanding.
The world would be a better place.
Did my grandma write this because it sounds just like something my grandma would write.
Hard disagree. It only applies for things you cannot change but should try to accept rather than stressing over it.
If you say "it is what it is," in reference to things you could change but choose not to, well that's on you.
On the other hand, we wouldn't have climate collapse and microplastics.
We as a a species did not inhabit caves regularly or as a standard.
but yet there we were, watching the shadows. sorry, off topic, but i love that story.
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Don't search for "thought terminating clichés"
There you go.
It happens.
Why not.
So it seems.
It would've been what it would've been...
There MUST be more to this provincial life!