croisko

[twilit palm]

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[hollow basin]

yes? what's unclear

[bold dirge]

what does "eclipsing being beneath appearences" mean

[hollow basin]

like

these new norms tend to pay more attention to what you look than what you are

[bold dirge]

OHHH

political leaders have to adapt to new social norms who block the being under appearence

block the nature of appearance

beneath?

social norms that r new and blocks the nature of being under appearance

[hollow basin]

i don't know if they "block" the nature of being

[bold dirge]

doesn't eclipse basically mean block

[hollow basin]

but at least they hide it

hmm no

[bold dirge]

maybe i should start studying english

[hollow basin]

i mean in french

it doesn't necessarily block, it just put it background

[oak hull]

i mean tbh this sentence makes no sense to me either

éclipsant l'être sous le paraître

[bold dirge]

ya it looks like something out of a poem

but this is in the context of an article

[hollow basin]

when there's a solar eclipse

the sun or the moon don't disappear

[oak hull]

obscuring the bing under the appearances

being

[hollow basin]

it's just hiding

[bold dirge]

what do theymean "under the appearances""

[oak hull]

paraitre as a noun

for appearance

wr

façon dont on est vu

[bold dirge]

i think i got it now tyty

[oak hull]

but what this has to do with social norms confuses me

[bold dirge]

its like about how political people have to be pretty to be taken more seriously

and so they called it a social norm

🤷

[hollow basin]

it's not only how you look and how pretty you are

in this case it might mean that politicians have to be eloquent to convince people

even if the content is not pertinent