A rough racket.
Think about the argument between psychic entities within an unconscious habitat. Ideas are battled out. You are the thinker, the habitat, the idea, the person. I think it would make for an interesting story. The anthropomorphized life-cycle of a human idea. An Idea can generate and eliminate additional ideas using psychic forces like foundations of logic and reserves of emotion, forces that can also weaken or bolster the original idea. But what is the original idea? And at one point where it's own validity has come into question, the habitat turns hostile. The deific idea becomes helpless as it is cannibalized by other ideas. Reducing it to a handful of interconnected principles that turn on each other and collapse into psychic alluvium.
What kind of idea undergoes the richest of dramas? "I am afraid of snakes" vs. "I should conquer my fears". I could always use the Love angle. I can't think of many a common ideas that overwhelm their peers like "I am in love". However temporary, this idea rises to the highest echelons of influence. Achieving a godlike power to sway and dictate the universe inside a person. What other idea can fall so far? "I love you" can transform into "I hate you". The idea now takes the abuse of revenge fantasies and the neglect of memories. Nostalgia forces the Idea to relive over and over moments. The Idea becomes the pariah, becomes the prisoner among peers.
I don't imagine anywhere in the story actively telling the audience what is going on. You could parallel it close enough to seem mundane. Ideas could get together to watch TV, but the sets only play the sights and sounds the body is relaying. It could be like a sporting event, they are all yelling at the set.
Shit like "Kiss her man!" and "Don't do it! You'll get herpes!"
There is a form of betting that takes place. The only substantial reward is prestige. Validity. Self-reinforcement.
"Fuck Spiders" is a pretty big deal around here, get used to him. (Sort of thing.)
What kind of idea undergoes the richest of dramas? "I am afraid of snakes" vs. "I should conquer my fears". I could always use the Love angle. I can't think of many a common ideas that overwhelm their peers like "I am in love". However temporary, this idea rises to the highest echelons of influence. Achieving a godlike power to sway and dictate the universe inside a person. What other idea can fall so far? "I love you" can transform into "I hate you". The idea now takes the abuse of revenge fantasies and the neglect of memories. Nostalgia forces the Idea to relive over and over moments. The Idea becomes the pariah, becomes the prisoner among peers.
I don't imagine anywhere in the story actively telling the audience what is going on. You could parallel it close enough to seem mundane. Ideas could get together to watch TV, but the sets only play the sights and sounds the body is relaying. It could be like a sporting event, they are all yelling at the set.
Shit like "Kiss her man!" and "Don't do it! You'll get herpes!"
There is a form of betting that takes place. The only substantial reward is prestige. Validity. Self-reinforcement.
"Fuck Spiders" is a pretty big deal around here, get used to him. (Sort of thing.)