the best writings tend to give people the feeling they’ve always had those thoughts

Implying that they haven’t had those thoughts?

Decentralized open source consciousness | Values-aligned communities | citizen of Black Rock City

not necessarily. I’ve definitely read things where I know for sure I’d never thought of the things before but left feeling like I did. Also the case when I know I’ve thought of the dots but never connected them.

I’ve been finding it most often where it’s the same end / future state I see for something, but from a different angle