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People's views are surreptitiously shaped by their experiences, and rationality comes limping after, downgraded to rationalization. Once opinions are established, they engender corresponding anticipations. People actively seek those experiences that ( Read more... )

You can say something so pure, so innocent, so (to you) arresting to someone who has read and critiqued and read and critiqued; and the phrase you utter to them can be so neglected, like just another passage from just another story, just another script to be squinted upon and scrutinized, to the point that you can't even communicate anything, ( Read more... )

It seems that the opposite of exoticization would be relocation. To truly come to know another place, to truly derive its essence beyond initial impressionistic views (however lovely and important they are), would be to relocate. Or at least to stay for an extended amount of time ( Read more... )