• itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    The next day you find the crows worshipping it. Bringing it trinkets. It seems to have moved a little. Is it… pointing at you? What is that humming sound?

    You realize this is where the word scarecrow comes from. This is the crow that scares. The crows live here now. You barely have time to pack your cart. The shrieks you hear three towns down. They fill the valley. The shrieks. The shrieks. The shrieks.

  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 hours ago

    Scarecrows are just making creepy shit to creep out animals because they’re dumb

    Does that mean that there’s an inverse relationship between being creeped out easier and intelligence?

    What about people that are too stupid to get creeped out or too dumb to notice?

    Conservatives are irrationally afraid of everything, but also often belligerent.

    Conservatives are basically human, so I don’t think that you can consider an inverse relationship between being creeped out and intelligence…

    …Unless animals are a lot more intelligent than we know.

    What even is intelligence?