Can a bagel be triggering?

Short answer: oh god yes. Long answer: ask a better question.

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Summary

Bread sliced bagels; tension and release; cognitive dissonance reduction; what is true, good, and useful; naïve realism is not the solution; one nation under stress; a better question.