1/3: This is not a new thought of mine, though it is an oversimplification for the sake of space. I should add that it often also applies to body language. — The problems are several. For starters, experiential frames of reference vary from person to person, as do each person’s interpretation of said EFOR. Next, moment to moment states of mind, emotions, and stress are factors. The immediate physical and social environment usually play roles,...
2/3: ...not to mention the broader community’s physical, social, and political situations.
When you look at it very broadly and also very narrowly one can’t really help but be astonished anything meaningfuly good/positive ever gets done. For me that’s the same astonishment I get when I look up at the stars in the night sky, look around while going for #walkies🐾 in the woods, at the beach, in the mountains, or in cities. I have to pinch myself when I remember that all of...
3/3: ...this everything sprung up because we got lucky. People are the problem, yes, but holy shit. Everything we as a species have managed to do was in spite of ourselves, and the cosmos were so microteenily, it’s all in spite of that, too.
It isn’t really technology that we need to keep working on. It’s us. That’s just a thought running through my head today. #experience #observation #humans #language #behavior #holyshit #candor #neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #residentalien #theweirdkid