increasingly i am coming to the conclusion that characterization interferes with empathic accuracy. In other words as history replaces mystery, we become less able to read the minds of the people that we relate to and instead cloud our minds with what we think they they want to think is on their minds based upon our notions of the way that they percieve us. Obviously, if we think somebody is an asshole for example, we are going to be less able to accurately read their minds and therefore less able to find inspiration in their presence. The same is true with almost all attempts at characterization and or definition. That's why icons can be so tricky. In this journal, for example I have an icon that i'm obviously very fond of and which casts me in a particular mode which serves as an attempt at self-definition. Unfortunately, this icon will guide the way viewers think that i think and may interfere with actual discovery of what truths lurk beneath the seemingly obvious. On the other hand, my other journal has no icon whatsoever which seemingly would increase the possibility of pathic analysis based on what i write rather than how i try to characterize myself with symbology. Hence, as you say, you like me becausae what you know about me is what i write and since you like my writing, you have a tendency to like me. The irony here, however, is that an equal amount of viewers will draw a characterization of me based upon the fact that i have no icon on that page and will infer that i am similar to all other folks who have no icon included which will serve again as a characterization and will get in the way of empathic accuracy. That is perhaps why i rarely refer to you as domme in our communication, because i don't want to characterize you in such a way but rather seek to open myself to greater empathy and more direct inspiration which if we are true to ourselves will result in a relationship with less momentum towards divergence and more possibility of intuitive connection. That's uh, what i've been thinking lately about my soul and the connection my sould has or doesn't have to others that i have come to know in LJ. Whaddya think. *head down looking for signals of toe wriggles*
Unfortunately, this icon will guide the way viewers think that i think and may interfere with actual discovery of what truths lurk beneath the seemingly obvious.
On the other hand, my other journal has no icon whatsoever which seemingly would increase the possibility of pathic analysis based on what i write rather than how i try to characterize myself with symbology. Hence, as you say, you like me becausae what you know about me is what i write and since you like my writing, you have a tendency to like me. The irony here, however, is that an equal amount of viewers will draw a characterization of me based upon the fact that i have no icon on that page and will infer that i am similar to all other folks who have no icon included which will serve again as a characterization and will get in the way of empathic accuracy.
That is perhaps why i rarely refer to you as domme in our communication, because i don't want to characterize you in such a way but rather seek to open myself to greater empathy and more direct inspiration which if we are true to ourselves will result in a relationship with less momentum towards divergence and more possibility of intuitive connection.
That's uh, what i've been thinking lately about my soul and the connection my sould has or doesn't have to others that i have come to know in LJ.
Whaddya think.
*head down looking for signals of toe wriggles*
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