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Show posts MenuQuote from: Nephew Twiddleton on October 19, 2012, 05:24:02 AMTHIS.Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on October 19, 2012, 05:18:50 AMQuote from: American Jackal on October 19, 2012, 05:14:21 AM
How does this fit in with not confusing the map for the territory?
The idea is still amorphous, as far as I'm concerned, but as I see it the idea that the projection of persona is not necessarily identical to the personality.
Or further, while you can have a pretty damn accurate map, you cannot have a mask that is not distorted in some way. Every mask, regardless of how many different masks can be made of the same person, will be a caricature, some grotesque, some idealized. But all of them have an inversion. The idealized masks have the blueprint for a grotesque counterpart on the concave side (for the narcissistic) and the grotesque masks have the blueprint for the idealized on the concave (for the perpetually self loathing).
Hmmm...
I hadn't thought of that before, but I like it.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 18, 2012, 05:35:43 PMWhoa, there's a vaccine against ants? My friend's gonna be thrilled to know, he was just telling me today about how ants somehow managed to destroy his family's electricity meter out in the country a few years ago. (Seriously, that shit happened.)
It's Flu Shot Day at work. Which means I get to find out who the stupidest people on my team are, while being forced to listen to their bullshit ant-vaccination misinformation.
Quote from: Man Yellow on October 18, 2012, 02:51:34 PMWhile I'm sure that's a significant factor, I also think a part of the explanation is something far more boring: if what you propose to produce is too unusual, the media people tasked with okaying it either won't get it, or will feel it's too weird.Quote from: Man Green on October 18, 2012, 06:09:04 AM
Interestingly, media representation is more about presenting an idealized form of social norms in order to maintain the status quo than about presenting reality.
Obviously, I'd think. Their owners have a vested interest in the status quo, and in pleasing fairy tales about how things are.