When your prof and people say "I always knew" that's when I take offense. Have you ever had your tarot cards read? They draw these conclusions and they can't possibly know!
It is like a bullet through the heart to know that someone has noticed something about you. Even worse if it was something you thought was unnoticeable. Basically all our polite social conventions are designed to stop us from telling each other what they look like to us
"there is so much of yourself in this, I need a break" hits a nerve!!
just a lil crude thought experiment: sometimes I think maybe the real way to rest is say - go work on a farm, and then you realize you will still have mental clutter that needs to be shushed every minute, now you could force yourself to do menial mental tasks, clerical or arithmetic, that ends up being quite easy to find an escape from as we know. so what are we left with: either find these "small" mental tasks that asymptotically near zero cognition, never touching it of course, and then shuffle through them at crazy speeds - i.e. tiktok or doomscrolling or whatever poison you pick. the other possible alternative i guess is the abstraction kool-aid whether that's mathematicians with category theory or algebraic constructs, or philosophers, linguists with their own syntax and semantics.
When your prof and people say "I always knew" that's when I take offense. Have you ever had your tarot cards read? They draw these conclusions and they can't possibly know!
I support tarot readers because the cards are doing the noticing and not them. That’s enough of a barrier so that it’s polite to make comments
Very true and relevant read. If I might ask, why do you say all observations are insults? Is it how it constricts the observed person?
It is like a bullet through the heart to know that someone has noticed something about you. Even worse if it was something you thought was unnoticeable. Basically all our polite social conventions are designed to stop us from telling each other what they look like to us
"there is so much of yourself in this, I need a break" hits a nerve!!
just a lil crude thought experiment: sometimes I think maybe the real way to rest is say - go work on a farm, and then you realize you will still have mental clutter that needs to be shushed every minute, now you could force yourself to do menial mental tasks, clerical or arithmetic, that ends up being quite easy to find an escape from as we know. so what are we left with: either find these "small" mental tasks that asymptotically near zero cognition, never touching it of course, and then shuffle through them at crazy speeds - i.e. tiktok or doomscrolling or whatever poison you pick. the other possible alternative i guess is the abstraction kool-aid whether that's mathematicians with category theory or algebraic constructs, or philosophers, linguists with their own syntax and semantics.