The people interviewed were interesting and I learned something from it, there was quite a bit of diversity in the responses. It is helpful to see this and see beliefs challenged.
The third guy, though, is a different story. He had some kind of problem processing information and kept going around in circles. This may be because he ha…
The people interviewed were interesting and I learned something from it, there was quite a bit of diversity in the responses. It is helpful to see this and see beliefs challenged.
The third guy, though, is a different story. He had some kind of problem processing information and kept going around in circles. This may be because he has learned to talk like this to mask the info processing problem and appear more normal. I would have ended this sooner because I know one person who will do similar things, will obsessively stay on a train of thought that goes nowhere. There's a contrarian streak to it as well as not being able to process new information quickly. I just ended up feeling sorry for him. . .Or maybe not, because there are many people in the world who have trouble making sense of facts quickly enough to see what is being done. Defensiveness when challenged will prevent people from understanding what is going on.
The selfishness of the other people was pretty spot on. It's hard to be in a dire situation and no one is noticing. It reminds me of the poem by Auden "Musee Des Beaux Arts" about the painting of Icarus plunging into the sea by . It begins:
"About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position
. . . .
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster"
I now wonder if he had sensed the mass formation that preceded WWII and this was at the heart of the poem.
The people interviewed were interesting and I learned something from it, there was quite a bit of diversity in the responses. It is helpful to see this and see beliefs challenged.
The third guy, though, is a different story. He had some kind of problem processing information and kept going around in circles. This may be because he has learned to talk like this to mask the info processing problem and appear more normal. I would have ended this sooner because I know one person who will do similar things, will obsessively stay on a train of thought that goes nowhere. There's a contrarian streak to it as well as not being able to process new information quickly. I just ended up feeling sorry for him. . .Or maybe not, because there are many people in the world who have trouble making sense of facts quickly enough to see what is being done. Defensiveness when challenged will prevent people from understanding what is going on.
The selfishness of the other people was pretty spot on. It's hard to be in a dire situation and no one is noticing. It reminds me of the poem by Auden "Musee Des Beaux Arts" about the painting of Icarus plunging into the sea by . It begins:
"About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position
. . . .
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster"
I now wonder if he had sensed the mass formation that preceded WWII and this was at the heart of the poem.