with most people, enabling them to access their full cognitive resources for interacting with the world is mostly a matter of enticing those resources out of the profound dissociation that the routine social practice of interpersonal torture has driven them into
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what does this mean, like, what dissocation what interpersonal torture srsly what the beans are you on about
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okay, in this tweet: https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1037400112383905799 … what if the part of my psyche that performed the instantaneous systems design didn't do that because it wasn't paying attention to my interaction with devops guy because it was busy fantasizing about something else entirely
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Chaos @chaosprimein conversation with devops guy, redesigned my approach to a problem on the fly based on what he was telling me about our constraints except, y'know, i didn't so much redesign it as the new design was just *there*, like i didn't *think* about it in any perceptible way at allShow this thread2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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what if it couldn't have done the systems design if it had been paying attention to the interaction because it had been busy fantasizing during all the systems design i consciously did in the past that's dissociation
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interpersonal torture: the easy and overwhelmingly dispositive example is public schooling
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ah, by 'social practice' i thought you mean, like, interpersonal practices, that makes more sense now
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so, if I can unravel the earlier wordsalad, your contention is that among the aftereffects of Living In A Society(tm) is reduced access to innate cognitive resources?
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people who only want to say things that fit into those must be so relaxed anyway, i don't consent to participating in your kink
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