“Don’t judge a book by its cover” has become a cliché, yet the underlying truth has never been more relevant than in the present day. Animals are capable of camouflage, deception, and misdirection but in the human domain, deceptive practices are far more prevalent.
For example, food in the human domain, is far more likely to be deceptive than in the animal domain. What is sold to us as “real” food is often a food-like substance, a laboratory concoction deceptively packaged and marketed.
“Real food for Real People.”
— Ad slogan for Nutrisystem, a company that sends pre-packaged diet foods to subscribers through the mail.
(What Real Food looks like according to Nutrisystem.)
Contracts have fine print in legalese. Think of all the deceptive phrasings we don’t have time to read when we check “agree” to do things online.
People are often not whom they are trying to seem. And we may also not be who we think we are. Each of us has some content we conceal from ourselves.
Depending on the context and the card position, consider this an auspicious time to look beneath the surface of whatever you are contemplating and scan it for concealed content.
See: Not what they Seem
Dealing with the Realm of Deadly Delusions