No, I don't want to hear it! I don't want to know!
Although this sort of thing does leave me gasping, it does have, at least, the virtue of honesty. The bulk of th population tend to employ more sophisticated methods of anti-communication, leading to countless wasted hours chasing the tantalising hope that at some point information might be exchanged.
Over the years, i'v reached the conclusion that you can't tell a person anything which they don't already get, in some sense. That is, you can help them become aware of something buried in their subconscious, you can give them words to express something they've felt but couldn't explain, you can reassure them that other ppl have thought what they're thinking, those sort of things, but you cannot communicate to them something outside their world-view, it simply does not exist for them. You can connect the dots, but you can't make the dots.
My tactic these days is to simply ask people questions about what they think, so that hopefully they'l meet their own inconsistencies, and evolve their own answers to these problems. It still gets a fairly anti-communicative response, people still believe i'm trying to convince them of something, have some agenda up my sleeve or whatnot, but it's th best i'v come up with so far.
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re: the blue piller
Date: 2008-04-21 04:07 pm (UTC)Although this sort of thing does leave me gasping,
it does have, at least, the virtue of honesty.
The bulk of th population tend to employ more sophisticated methods of anti-communication,
leading to countless wasted hours chasing the tantalising hope
that at some point information might be exchanged.
Over the years, i'v reached the conclusion
that you can't tell a person anything
which they don't already get, in some sense.
That is, you can help them become aware of something buried in their subconscious,
you can give them words to express something they've felt but couldn't explain,
you can reassure them that other ppl have thought what they're thinking,
those sort of things, but
you cannot communicate to them something outside their world-view,
it simply does not exist for them.
You can connect the dots, but you can't make the dots.
My tactic these days is to simply ask people questions about what they think,
so that hopefully they'l meet their own inconsistencies,
and evolve their own answers to these problems.
It still gets a fairly anti-communicative response,
people still believe i'm trying to convince them of something,
have some agenda up my sleeve or whatnot,
but it's th best i'v come up with so far.