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Visited the Denver International Airport last month and the baggage claim murals felt like a warning
One side says the murals are just weird art about peace and cooperation, but the other side says they're predicting something dark like a plague or apocalypse. You been there - which interpretation do you buy into?
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young.spencer7d ago
The "warning" take gets more interesting when you notice our brains are literally wired to see threats in random patterns. It's the same reason we see faces in clouds or think our phone buzzed when it didn't.
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theabarnes7d ago
That pattern recognition thing is true but I think people lean on it too hard to explain away stuff they don't want to deal with. The murals aren't just random shapes our brains are making into something scary. They're intentional paintings with clear themes of death, destruction, and chaos. You don't accidentally paint a child's toy with a sword through it or a city on fire. The artist himself said there's meaning in it, and it's not all happy. Sometimes a warning is just a warning, not a trick your brain is playing.
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