My husband is CONSTANTLY analyzing. He basically never turns it off. Even his “goofing off” is analytical. He still has strong emotions though! But there’s a mode I’m in *most of the time* that he’s never in. Kind of hard to explain. Like...aesthetically curating your experience?
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“Mmm, that looks nice. Ooh yeah THAT precise shade of blue. No, not quite right, over THERE.”
Can be applied to social vibes too. “Grr, that comment doesn’t really evoke the vibe I want to be experiencing right now.”
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Maybe I only read them this way because I’m so aesthetic oriented, but I read culture wars as all about the vibes. “I want the vibe of my world to be like THIS” vs “I want the vibe of my world to be like THAT”
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you can analyze anything, including emotions, aesthetics, and vibes. But “evaluative-mode” is the action of *actually vibing* (or enjoying or emoting), and Andrew doesn’t live there, he just visits.
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Whereas I live in evaluative-mode and visit analytical-mode now and then.
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Tbh I think most people who live in feeling/evaluative mode do it poorly — they pick one of the vibe options on offer even if all the options suck.
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My ideal vibe doesn’t actually exist in any subculture I know of; something like “high-energy intelligent feminine biophilic omniwin”
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There are elements of hippie aesthetics that get close but w/o the high energy; there are transhumanist/sci-fi aesthetics that hit “high-energy omniwin” but usually lack the discipline & attention to history to be beautiful & do their biophilia clumsily
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The majority of “high energy intelligent omniwin” aesthetics are exclusively masculine
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and the current aesthetic trends online are heavily weighted against both omniwin and intelligence
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Hmm. There’s something there. I have a few vibe preferences at various scales (peace over conflict in the world, nice weather where I live, good coffee, laid back personal life energy) but feeling the vibe being off is an input that then turns into a thinking task.
At personal scale, it becomes problem solving (go from bad coffee to good coffee). At global scale it’s mostly reframing/refactoring till I’m in tune with prevailing vibe. Rarely any attempt to participate in changing the large-scale vibe, since I find that mostly delusional.
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But 90% of the variables, macro or personal, I can roll with a range of vibes. No strong preferences.
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I think going from vibe preference to problem-solving is the normal/healthy thing for everyone, the variance here is how much time they spend going “what’s this vibe?” (perception task) vs “how do I engineer my life to achieve this vibe?” (planning task).
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I spend a lot of my time in perception mode but I wouldn’t say I have strong aesthetic preferences. The opposite in fact. Though I exaggerate a bit to troll you aesthetes, I do deliberately and consciously work on discarding aesthetic filters as I become aware of them.
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