A random thoughtlet

[__marcelo]

This is certainly Vidding Stuff 101, but it occurred to me a couple of days ago that vids are to source material as memory is to our lives. We too remember/remember our lives by editing it into short fragments, putting everything together in whatever order makes more sense to us, and giving it a background tune/emotion that recodifies everything

Comments

[liviapenn]

So many of us are raised to believe in *some* form of absolute truth, and yet, the more I read about perception, cognition and memory, the more it amazes me that we manage to communicate with each other at all.

I read some study once, where researchers asked married couples to tell them the "story" of their relationship. Some people had never thought of it as a story before and didn't really do well-- other couples had clearly worked out a narrative and told the story well. Later, as it turned out, the couples that *had* a story about their relationship turned out to be more successful. I always thought that was kind of cool.

[__marcelo]

Later, as it turned out, the couples that *had* a story about their relationship turned out to be more successful. I always thought that was kind of cool.

Indeed. A practical use for fannish skills! *g* More seriously, it's cool how *building* the story is important, not just what story it is (the dark mirror image of this is 1984's "we have always been at war with Eurasia" and siblings; what makes a story-about-your-life an useful tool for self-definition, and what makes it a self-justifying delusion? Is there something in the story itself that makes the difference, something in its relationship with truth, is is something else? I don't know.)

[rubynye]

I read an article that had maybe as many paragraphs in it as your post has words, on this subject. I think yours was more informative.

[__marcelo]

OTOH, if I were paid by the word, I'd have written a much longer, at most equally informative article :D.

[__marcelo]

Considering that I came up with that while waching with a friend a row of ninjas dancing in synch in YouTube, I'd definitely classify it as shallow :P.