I want to give this a dozen points just for that great and brave personal example.
This is certainly an inspiring call-to-arms for use of the Gray Arts to raise the sanity waterline. I’m on board.
A side-note: I’ve always said that I’m (usually) ok with tricking people into being less-easily tricked. This should certainly apply to oneself. If this could actually work, it could become more difficult in the long-run to hijack heuristics, for good or bad purposes. The combination of these two ideas would be the psychological equivalent of a “viral antivirus”. Sort of a tangent idea, in the abstract.
I do personally like it when I believe that someone using a less direct or more emotionally charged means of communication for an important idea is capable of discussing the idea seriously. I’m not as bad as some lit majors I know, but I’m easily put on high-alert and sent into analysis-mode when reading fiction, if my persuasion alarms are set off. If I had found HP:MoR for instance, I would be on ridiculously high alert until finding LW. It may be a plus, long-term, to write or discuss analytically the ideas that you encode artistically.
I want to give this a dozen points just for that great and brave personal example.
This is certainly an inspiring call-to-arms for use of the Gray Arts to raise the sanity waterline. I’m on board.
A side-note: I’ve always said that I’m (usually) ok with tricking people into being less-easily tricked. This should certainly apply to oneself. If this could actually work, it could become more difficult in the long-run to hijack heuristics, for good or bad purposes. The combination of these two ideas would be the psychological equivalent of a “viral antivirus”. Sort of a tangent idea, in the abstract.
I do personally like it when I believe that someone using a less direct or more emotionally charged means of communication for an important idea is capable of discussing the idea seriously. I’m not as bad as some lit majors I know, but I’m easily put on high-alert and sent into analysis-mode when reading fiction, if my persuasion alarms are set off. If I had found HP:MoR for instance, I would be on ridiculously high alert until finding LW. It may be a plus, long-term, to write or discuss analytically the ideas that you encode artistically.