"The truth speaks to me from a peaceful place."

[nyuanshin]

My earbud headphones broke yesterday. More precisely, only one earbud is functional. I've gone through so many pairs that it was just instinctual to go pick up another on my way to get groceries, but this time I paused and decided not to. The superficial reason why is that one earbud is enough to listen to speech if I want to (e.g. podcasts or

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[nyuanshin]

"I'm interested -- can you ballpark guess about some of your own thoughts and feelings that you feel have correlation/causation with some of these bands?"It's easier to explain the principle than dive into the morass of examples, due to the nature of the thing. What this comes down to is "you are what you eat" -- piping signals into your head strengthens circuits that resonate with that signal. The point of art is to amplify slices of life to bring them out more vividly

[csn]

What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others.

-Linji

jiyushin

[nyuanshin]

. . . probably encapsulates the theme of the year as well as any single word could.

Greyface

[xshardsx]

This reminds me of one time while I was doing videography: While editing a sequence of people smiling, and scrubbing the footage frame-by-frame, it filled me with a sort of horror as to how weird and gross a still-frame of the middle of a laugh can look without the context of recognizing that it's laughter; so I decided it would be best if I stopped laughing altogether. Thank god Maus talked me out of that one.

I think you're thinning a forest with a nuclear device.

Re: Greyface

[nyuanshin]

While I appreciate the concern, the analogy is pretty strained: you made a categorical behavioral rule based on looking at circumstances that were so dramatically out of the normal ecological context of that behavior as to have no validity when ported back into it, and with no backing from a theory of perception. Bad science!

In contrast, I'm making a decision to restrict my intake of something (temporarily and possibly permanently pending the results of the trial) based on a decade's worth of in-the-wild personal observations, in conjunction with a background theory about how brains work in general, and mine in particular. I'm pretty sure I hedged adequately. And even if we ignore all that, sometimes drastic experiments can be educational provided they're not dangerous. Good science!

Re: Greyface

[nyuanshin]

(Though admittedly this didn't come out as well in the OP as in the subsequent comment to Jake, but I dashed it off in a hurry because I wanted to just get the idea down.

[queueball]

This is depressing because it makes me face up to the fact that I, too, should set up rules about, or barriers to, several categories of stimuli, for the same reason, and have not as yet been willing.

I tracked down "Two Types of Mind" in, among other places, The Trend of Economic Thinking, which is expensive as hell where it can be found at all and, because the Northwest only pretends to be literate, is not in libraries here. A reprint was due out at the end of February but slipped its publication date; a note about it resurfaces every couple of weeks in my tickler file, and will until I can buy and consume what promises to be a terrifying treat of a book.

[nyuanshin]

That's me: converting latent discord to open crisis since 2007.

I can transcribe the rest of that essay during my copious free time, if the reprint doesn't come out first. It's not painfully long and there are some other nice bits to it that I mentally marked "to revisit" anyhow.

[queueball]

The tickler delivers. (I mean that it came up again, has now been published, and I have ordered The Trend of Economic Thinking and should receive it Thursday, though I suppose this would also serve as a headline for a Savage Love column.)

If I open a consulting agency, I may seek to license the slogan "Converting latent discord to open crisis since 2007."

[nyuanshin]

By all means, I'd hate to see it go to waste. Just slip me a $50 and we'll call it square.

[mausoz]

Have you ever heard any Esmerine? A friend linked me to them, and I am severely out of touch as far as music goes, so I have no idea of hope popular they are/aren't.

https://www.junodownload.com/artists/Esmerine/releases/
Maybe check out the second one linked there of "And They Left No Footprints In The Dust Behind Them"? That's my favorite at the moment. The full track is 12:28.

[nyuanshin]

Nope, new to me.

Just listening to the clips now, I like the style. Thanks.

Reminds me a bit of Tortoise, a bit of Colleen, and a bit of A Silver Mt Zion.

. . . aha! I just googled and found out that last one isn't a coincidence.

[mausoz]

Haha, weird. I'll check out the other bands. If you want the full tracks to any of those pieces, I have many of them, and could e-mail them to you.

[nyuanshin]

I managed to find Aurora, but if you have any of these then by all means, I'd be much obliged.