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the comforting illusion you grip tightest right before life proves otherwise
means the power to direct, manage, or restrain how something or someone behaves or unfolds
from From Medieval Latin contrarotulus, a 'counter-roll' — literally a duplicate register kept alongside the original so the two could be checked against each other. To 'control' was to audit by comparison, making sure the books matched. The accountant's verification slowly swelled into the grand modern sense of command and mastery — though the humble bookkeeping bones are still there, quietly insisting that control was always just double-checking.
- brain trick
- Illusion of control makes gamblers throw dice harder for high numbers
- stress link
- Low job control predicts heart disease more than workload
- word root
- From medieval Latin contrarotulus, a counter-roll for checking accounts
- keyboard ghost
- Ctrl key debuted on a 1960s teletype, never left
- paradox
- Self-control studies show willpower feels like a depletable muscle
operation northwoods — cia plan to stage false flag attacks on us citizens in 1962, declassified 1997
tuskegee syphilis study — us public health service deliberately withheld treatment from 399 black men for 40 years, 1932-1972
mk-ultra program — cia covert mind control experiments using lsd on unwitting subjects from 1950s-1970s