Every Nuclear Explosion

Like, I Don't Know

One obliquely challenges the statement of the other. Defensive tactic needed. Deploy like, I don't know. Conversation moves on.

In moments when the 21C subject has spoken their way into a corner, pretending to have more knowledge than it in fact possesses, it may deploy like, I don't know. This is a way of admitting deception or limitation to the external parties without losing face. This mechanism is especially effective for the guilty party if preceded by one last ditch effort to escape social harm. "I'm not one to define things. Like, my roommate, he can say, like, what particular type of music is, but I'm all, like, you don't need to be like that. Like, I don't know."

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