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paulhope

CG44: Perception and Mind; some social angst

Jan 28, 2006 00:46

Shopping period again. Most of my classes are pretty certain already. I'm afraid of overspecializing. On the other hand, many of these course are directly addressing questions that have been burning me. There's a lot of thought surrounding most of them.

The first is CG0044: Perception and Mind.
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theshowmustgo0n January 28 2006, 06:43:28 UTC

::sigh:: I miss you already.

But... I'll see you tomorrow. :)

paulhope January 28 2006, 07:19:08 UTC

See you soon.

(I'd add something like a kissy emoticon but I don't want to alienate the peeps)

polishcyclist January 30 2006, 01:35:21 UTC

Perchance explanation of "AC-centered crowd" comment...?

paulhope January 30 2006, 02:33:38 UTC

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to.

For me, that social scene collectively (although not really any of the individuals) was a really strong example of a situation where group membership (ex-Rockwell, AC, to some extent Bishop) got lifted higher than the heads of the actual group members. Social interaction being something other than mere interaction between people.

Then came the layer of secrecy, which emphasized the alienation.
Then finally the revelation, which sort of froze the whole thing into a mythology, I'm afraid, because from the outside it felt like just that boldly contoured an image--an almost cartoonish cliche, really.

Nowadays, I don't really remember much of high school, to be honest. It may have had to do with the sleep deprivation at the time. Or it may be because I just don't think about it that much--don't reinforce the neural paths.

polishcyclist February 1 2006, 07:14:32 UTC

Yeah, I was afraid it was this. There's nothing I can say except that you are deeply deeply wrong about this - 99.9% of the time we were just interacting as friends. The secrecy/alienation thing happened a couple times, and that was bad, but on the whole...It feels like a cliche because it fits what you felt but wasn't the actual cause of what you felt. I think that your feels had alot more to do with chance and individual personalities (social discomfort, lack-of-confidence, etc) than anything else - don't blame it on a conspiracy or deus ex machina.