Behaviors and artifact displays that reassure observers that despite acting weird in public you won’t violate the order of civil inattention
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in one sense it’s kind of rude to be weird in public because it upsets people and makes them worry
but if you figure out ways to hypnotize people into thinking whatever weird thing you’re doing is harmless then it’s fine
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Like how talking to yourself is less scary if you wear a bluetooth headset?
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yeah totally
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From where i'm standing It seems to be a near-core facet of our mental facilities. People going thru dementia / have extreme memory problems will often lie (to themselves?) about why they did something. Also shows up under "split-brain" syndromes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology) …
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That people don't seem to know they are doing it (ala "the elephant in the brain"?) is really weird to me. I also think there is something related in Pathological Lying and how that seems to be a relatively common occurrence with OCD and other anxiety disorders/depression.
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