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"Deprovincialization" - still learning English! Also, and funny enough in the same sentence, "rankle". I mean I guess I've certainly heard the word before, probably half paying attention to a show or movie. Rankle. Quite onomatopoetic you might say

Dr. Carl Sagan writes about the Great Demotions, the discoveries that our planet, star and galaxy are rather unremarkable in the universe. Here's a fun idea, "Last Thursdayism". Its a satirical logical argument that it's not possible to prove that the universe, all its visible light and us with all our memories for that matter didn't just pop into existence last Thursday. It's not logically falsifiable, how curious!

Here's a good joke! Aristotle, Plato, St. Agustine and St. Thomas Aquinas walk into a bar, and remark how the all the celestial bodies orbit the Earth. I respond "holy shit time traveling philosophers" and promptly leave the bar and go to ihop