The incomprehensible people around us suddenly become fairly simple and predictable [...] They also become all that much more interesting.
These two sentences seem to contradict each other.
you’ve discovered the pleasures of socializing
Not really. I do it when I have to, to further some goal I have, but I still don’t find it particularly “pleasurable” (with certain exceptions, of course).
When you don’t uderstand anything about what’s going on, you are bored and turn away to other activities. When you understand enough that you can follow the action but not so much as to already know what’s coming next, you can get pretty sucked in.
In other terms: TV Tropes Will Enhance Your Life: beng able to read and recongize the patters in narrative fiction can make the fiction all that more interesting, in an “I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE” way.
“Not Really”: Oh, well, my fault for overgeneralizing, but I the feeling of empowerment as you start seeing how people actually work to be thrilling. To pardoy myself, I’d say I’m like Monsieur Jourdain: “THEY ARE SPEAKING IN PROSE, THEY HAVE BEEN DOING SO FOR YEARS! AND THEY DO NOT KNOW IT! HOW EXCITING!”
These two sentences seem to contradict each other.
Not really. I do it when I have to, to further some goal I have, but I still don’t find it particularly “pleasurable” (with certain exceptions, of course).
When you don’t uderstand anything about what’s going on, you are bored and turn away to other activities. When you understand enough that you can follow the action but not so much as to already know what’s coming next, you can get pretty sucked in.
In other terms: TV Tropes Will Enhance Your Life: beng able to read and recongize the patters in narrative fiction can make the fiction all that more interesting, in an “I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE” way.
“Not Really”: Oh, well, my fault for overgeneralizing, but I the feeling of empowerment as you start seeing how people actually work to be thrilling. To pardoy myself, I’d say I’m like Monsieur Jourdain: “THEY ARE SPEAKING IN PROSE, THEY HAVE BEEN DOING SO FOR YEARS! AND THEY DO NOT KNOW IT! HOW EXCITING!”