As far back as ancient Greece we have had a version of “give me strength to change what I can, the paitience to accept what I can’t, and the wisdom to know the difference”.
“It is what it is” just adds “spare me the fucks on that which does not matter”.
It may be the weed talking, but that was profound AF.
On the flipside, how many people were tortured or killed to accept it is what it is?
and so it goes
I only say that in response to things I have no control over. It’s a stoic comfort.
If I can change shit, I will.
Yeah, then maybe we wouldn’t be facing down extinction level climate change that’s killing off most species around the world right now.
You think the millions of people that got embroiled in the various apocalyptic wars throughout history didn’t say to themselves something like that in order to just keep going?
If someone gives me that phrase, I respond with “yes, it definitely is.” Or “well, it isn’t what it isn’t”.
Might be preferable to being stuck down this stupid leg of the Trousers of Time
I think IIWII is what’s called a “thought-terminating cliche”, which might make it recursive: It is what it is is what it is what it is is.
That hurt to type out.
