Mores

So you grow up with a screen in front of you that entertains but tells you nothing about real life, and when you turn it off it remains in your vision without you even realizing it and it reduces the world before you to a collection of stereotypes and stock situations, so you're never actually listening, you're just fitting everything to those stock situations like a trained parrot. You're overlaying certain patterns—love at first sight, clarity of purpose, the underdog is always right, effort begets reward—and ignoring reality—ambiguity, cognitive dissonance, working against your own interests, not knowing your own motives, nuance, etc.—because it doesn't fit the narrative.

—Winston Rowntree, Subnormality.