Norms, Values, and Why You Feel Weird at Funerals
Cosmic Code: The Glitch That Sings — Article 3
Norms are not ideas. They are training scars.
A norm is what’s expected. A value is the emotional consequence of obeying—or breaking—it.
From how you greet someone to how loud you laugh, your behaviors are shaped by repetition and hormonal feedback. Oxytocin hits for belonging. Cortisol spikes for deviation. Dopamine rewards performance. It’s not ethics—it’s circuitry.
Even before you're born, your emotional operating system is in the works. A calm, safe mother bathes the fetus in oxytocin. A stressed, fearful mother floods the environment with cortisol. These are the biological prequels to your social norms.
Privilege isn’t about virtue. It’s about inherited bandwidth.
Some kids are coded in safety. Others are compiled under threat. The results show up in adulthood—attention span, emotional regulation, reaction time, self-trust.
So next time someone “can’t get it together,” consider this: maybe they’re not broken. Maybe they’re just overfit for survival.
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- You Are Stardust… With a Feedback Loop: How Emotion Programs the Machine
- Norms, Values, and Why You Feel Weird at Funerals: The Hidden Script of Emotional Social Code
- Culture Isn’t a Belief System — It’s a Bootloader: How Cloudware Shapes What You Feel
- Emergence Debt — Why Freedom Isn’t What You Think: The Hidden Cost of Stability
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