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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If yes, explain and what is your age and gender identity? [/quote] It's not generational. For me, exposure to this phrase was educational. The anthropologist Clifford Geertz, in describing the world view of a society in which the Earth was thought to be balanced on the back of a turtle, answered the question "what is under the turtle?" this way. [/quote] Agreed that it's based on educational background. You are much more likely to be familiar with it if you've studied either philosophy or literature (because it gets referenced in literary works) or are very well read in general. If you aren't a particularly academic person or have only non-humanities academic interests, it might seem very obscure.[/quote]
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