A conduit that refracts meaning to other conduits.And that for a very good chunk of our waking moments, we are functionally inert
But you would like, ideally, to have some sense of what is happening to you, how the object of perception is interacting with you. I.e. arriving at a "genuine" and totally non-performative opinion may be a misguided or even impossible ideal.
I do think this is a worthwhile effort, i.e. not misguided, but in a way that doesn't expect to single out some fundamental state of oneself/one's opinion that is prior to external influence. That is, all we are is an aggregate of external influences, and learned expressions of responses to these influences.But you would like, ideally, to have some sense of what is happening to you, how the object of perception is interacting with you
Yeah, a missed connection, a failure to communicate, in a sense.The meh response is some ways the easiest to analyse, it's the absence of arousal
Which you can then interrogate. Have I deliberately armoured myself against it, for exampleYeah, a missed connection, a failure to communicate, in a sense.
This gets at the approach I've been taking lately re: aesthetic appreciation. If a given work doesn't resonate with me (be it a Marvel film or a Bergman film), I just try to shift my perspective until I can tap into that resonance.Yeah, a missed connection, a failure to communicate, in a sense.
This is what I found weed taught me as a child, how to tune the dial until I receive a signal.This gets at the approach I've been taking lately re: aesthetic appreciation. If a given work doesn't resonate with me (be it a Marvel film or a Bergman film), I just try to shift my perspective until I can tap into that resonance.
Yeah, such as if you went into the experience with a pre-disposed opinion or a standard that the work has to be compared to by default.And you know, have I done this out of spite, or out of fear or etc