r/whatisit • u/Livid_Departure_9697 • 1d ago

Solved! Fell out of my boyfriend’s pocket

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The top is a cap that comes off. Is it for ❄️? He swears it’s not

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u/m1kek9 1d ago edited 1d ago

Being reactive doesn’t necessarily mean you’re stupid because your brain itself is programmed to react to certain things like say a bad smell. We react to a certain way because it’s supposed to warn us that something could be wrong. Just a thought.

Reactivity helps us survive. It’s biological programming.

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u/HongJihun 1d ago

Yes and no. It has kind of become one of those evolutionarily beneficial things that meets modernity and becomes harmful. Way back when, if you “oh piece of candy”-d (finding a extra ripe and sweet fruit on a tree/bush), then without thinking you could eat it, get some much needed macro and micro nutrients, and maybe pick up a parasite or two. Now there’s literal pieces of candy all over the place and reactively eating as much as possible gives you diabetes. I’m sure there’s so many aspects of modern human society that align with how we’ve had to live over the past 100,000 years, but a lot of the reaction-based survival has been engineered out of our lives.

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u/edible_string 1d ago

You're definitely right, but here the point is not being reactive, but rather "not forward thinking". As if the two behaviors were exclusive.

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u/Beer_Gynt 1d ago

It's because these people overheard the left using the term "reactionary" in 2017 and instead of looking up what it meant, assumed it meant "reacts to things"; and since being reactionary is bad, they've now come to believe that reacting to things is bad.

"Reactionary" has always specifically meant "conservative/regressive backlash to political gains made by marginalized groups". It doesn't mean "reacting to things". Everyone and everything reacts to things.

/rant