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by runtime_blues 1135 days ago
I think the point is that if we used the language of museum displays and pop-sci books about antiquity to describe the modern world, the results would be comical.

In all likelihood, big-bosomed stone pendants dug up in Mesopotamia had as much to do with "fertility rituals" as truck nuts do.

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Although magical thinking seems to be alive and well in all corners of life. Maybe we still have those kind of behaviours, just expressed in different ways.
Are you saying truck nuts aren't part of a fertility ritual?