The focus of this activity is the human body, the appearance and health of which loom as a dominant concern in the ethos of the people.
...before realising that the culture in question was ours. But right up to the end I wasn’t sure if Yvain was just satirising western culture of if he demonstrating a significant insight into our framing biases. Rather than a punch line, I was half expecting the excerpt to be followed by a page or two of analysis with links to ‘inferential distance’, etc.
Perhaps that very doubt shows the power and potential benefit that framing gives us. In context of a Yvain post on LessWrong, my mind was able to anticipate all sorts of creative links and insights that it perhaps would never have considered had the satire been delivered elsewhere. It is obvious just how useful that bias would be in most situations, particularly social ones.
Ok, so I got as far as:
...before realising that the culture in question was ours. But right up to the end I wasn’t sure if Yvain was just satirising western culture of if he demonstrating a significant insight into our framing biases. Rather than a punch line, I was half expecting the excerpt to be followed by a page or two of analysis with links to ‘inferential distance’, etc.
Perhaps that very doubt shows the power and potential benefit that framing gives us. In context of a Yvain post on LessWrong, my mind was able to anticipate all sorts of creative links and insights that it perhaps would never have considered had the satire been delivered elsewhere. It is obvious just how useful that bias would be in most situations, particularly social ones.