This seems more to be about the threshold of perception than population distributions, clustering illusions and such. After all the relative difference between an extreme and the average is always a matter of the sample you take. I don’t think people in my circle constantly discuss David Bowie, but they do discuss him with a certain regularity. Same with the filmmaker Andrei Tarkovksy. David Lynch recent passing made him a extreme mainstay on social media, but I reckon once a month someone would tell me how much they loved his work. That’s not constant, that’s not an extreme.
Maybe I’m just projecting: when I find I am self-pitting and say sweeping generalization “why can I never do X” or “why is it every time I X I get bad-result-Y” it’s very hard to list three examples that all fall into the same taxonomy. I may find three related examples, but not three events which neatly fit in the same box.
I don’t think it’s all-or-nothing at all. I think it’s just you only notice the absence or the abundance. It’s just how perception is trained.
This seems more to be about the threshold of perception than population distributions, clustering illusions and such. After all the relative difference between an extreme and the average is always a matter of the sample you take. I don’t think people in my circle constantly discuss David Bowie, but they do discuss him with a certain regularity. Same with the filmmaker Andrei Tarkovksy. David Lynch recent passing made him a extreme mainstay on social media, but I reckon once a month someone would tell me how much they loved his work. That’s not constant, that’s not an extreme.
Maybe I’m just projecting: when I find I am self-pitting and say sweeping generalization “why can I never do X” or “why is it every time I X I get bad-result-Y” it’s very hard to list three examples that all fall into the same taxonomy. I may find three related examples, but not three events which neatly fit in the same box.
I don’t think it’s all-or-nothing at all. I think it’s just you only notice the absence or the abundance. It’s just how perception is trained.