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The pair of glasses you forgot you were wearing, prescribing reality to you.

means The overall lens of beliefs and assumptions through which a person interprets the world and everything that happens in it.

from A direct, deliberate translation of the German 'Weltanschauung' ('Welt' = world, 'Anschauung' = view or perception), a word philosophers coined in the late 1700s/early 1800s to describe one's fundamental way of perceiving and making sense of existence. It entered English in the 1800s as a loan-translation (a 'calque') and has carried its philosophical weight ever since.

origin
German Weltanschauung, philosophy's gift to everyone's group chat
sneaky trait
feels like observation, is actually interpretation
upgrade path
changes only when reality gets rude enough
blind spot
invisible to the person who holds it
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