Sorry if tangential or I am missing an obvious cultural reference, but this statement keeps bugging me:
People getting angry at not being invited to things has been a problem for a long time, and could even be considered a potential global catastrophic risk.
What is the support for holding this belief? The only cultural reference that comes to my mind is Hitler being rejected from Art school (i.e. not being invited to a prestigious thing). However, the thought that the counterfactual impact of such a rejection is the holocaust is more an internet meme than a rational thought that should be turned into a belief about the world.
No reason to feel dumb—I didn’t immediately get the reference either. I saw that it was a reference to a legend about a golden apple from how it was the caption to a painting of a legend-looking-person holding a golden apple, so to answer your question I googled “golden apple legend”, found the wikipedia disambiguation page, and searched that for the legend that fit.
Sorry if tangential or I am missing an obvious cultural reference, but this statement keeps bugging me:
What is the support for holding this belief? The only cultural reference that comes to my mind is Hitler being rejected from Art school (i.e. not being invited to a prestigious thing). However, the thought that the counterfactual impact of such a rejection is the holocaust is more an internet meme than a rational thought that should be turned into a belief about the world.
It’s a joking reference to the Apple of Discord story, wherein the goddess of discord Eris crashed a party and started the Trojan War.
Now I feel dumb, but at least I’m smarter. Thanx.
No reason to feel dumb—I didn’t immediately get the reference either. I saw that it was a reference to a legend about a golden apple from how it was the caption to a painting of a legend-looking-person holding a golden apple, so to answer your question I googled “golden apple legend”, found the wikipedia disambiguation page, and searched that for the legend that fit.