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The power and peril of perspective
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Local Photographers played like a fiddle.
Well, sort of (for both steve and Slumberfreeze). They were deliberately told different stories as an experiment, and then the object of the experiment was to see if having a different narrative in mind would affect what the photographers saw. Unsurprisingly and remarkably at the same time, it really did, which then affected the story those photographers told through their art.
Most of child rearing, most of education, most of Sunday school, for that matter, can be understood as teaching people a frame of reference, a way of understanding, a 'worldview', with the deliberate intention of having it affect the way they experience and interpret events. Nothing 'artificial' about it, and nobody's 'playing' anybody. We do it on purpose all the time.
And it's been done to all of us, every since we ourselves were kids. It's good once in awhile to remember that we ourselves each have a backstory and a narrative and therefore a perspective that are all unique, and that very much influence what we 'see' and experience and think we understand. It is only as we compare our points of view with others that we can start to really understand that.
Most of child rearing, most of education, most of Sunday school, for that matter, can be understood as teaching people a frame of reference, a way of understanding, a 'worldview', with the deliberate intention of having it affect the way they experience and interpret events. Nothing 'artificial' about it, and nobody's 'playing' anybody. We do it on purpose all the time.
And it's been done to all of us, every since we ourselves were kids. It's good once in awhile to remember that we ourselves each have a backstory and a narrative and therefore a perspective that are all unique, and that very much influence what we 'see' and experience and think we understand. It is only as we compare our points of view with others that we can start to really understand that.
I like Bill Bonner's term for most of what happens in the Publik Indoctrinashun Sinturs:
"Negative Education"
It might take YEARS for the person subjected to modern indoctrination and propaganda to UNLEARN all the old falsehoods, so as to get back to the point of merely being utterly ignorant.
Then, with a tip of the hat to YermeYahu 16:19, we can finally start to learn the Truth.
"Negative Education"
It might take YEARS for the person subjected to modern indoctrination and propaganda to UNLEARN all the old falsehoods, so as to get back to the point of merely being utterly ignorant.
Then, with a tip of the hat to YermeYahu 16:19, we can finally start to learn the Truth.
I think Augustine talked a lot about the superior position of the total savage over the civilized man who thought he knew it all already.
That is actually scriptural according to Christ. Lukewarm is the most dangerous position, because we think we know and pre-judge.