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Easy answer: no. I find it interesting to think about the possibilities, however; to consider things that would be present or absent in Perfect World.
Food, for example: in Perfect World (PW), if we have an abundance of food, you can have some, and we will make do with less (quantity or variety) in order for that to happen. Why, after all, do we need so much food that is actually crap? Why are scarce resources used to create thirty different kinds of potato chips?
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Do you even know what I'm talking about? Before 2021, I had no idea either. These are writing terms, used to describe the planning phase of a story, novel, memoir, or other writing project. "Plotters" are those with timelines, outlines, scene inventories, and character descriptions, all laid out before they even begin to write. "Pantsers" are so called because they like to "write by the seat of their pants," without much planning. I've been thinking about how these things translate into life itself.
Think about your house being on fire. There's so much planning that's supposed to go into this eventuality: break in case of fire. Call in case of fire. Double check the alarms, change the batteries, check the fire extinguisher. Clean out the dryer vents, get the chimney checked, have a meeting point, hide rope ladders under the bed to climb out the window. Stop, drop, and roll. But in the moment, what do you actually do?
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