"it was ok i suppose" : a non reaction to "polarazing" things

luka

luka

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It's not an easy question to answer tbf. It's not even very easy to understand as a question
 
luka

luka

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Is the question has this ever happened to you, in which case, of course everyone will answer yes.
 
luka

luka

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Or is the question what specific things have left you with this response, which I would say, leads nowhere interesting
 
luka

luka

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Or is the question, how to account for this lack of a response, which is more fruitful
 
luka

luka

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I've certainly always found myself troubled by the lack of the 'appropriate' response to things all through my life
 
luka

luka

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That could be, for instance, not feeling anything at all in a site of Outstanding Natural Beauty
 
luka

luka

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Part of the issue in the latter case is we are expected to arrive at these things cold without context and be able to appreciate their significance. But that is not how it works as a rule.
 
luka

luka

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There is, as I keep saying, an underappreciation of how active a process perception can be, or aesthetic experience more broadly. And an expectation that a feeling should overwhelm you on impact. Which does of course happen in some circumstances. But rarely.
 
luka

luka

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And there's different places you can go with it. You can say, OK, fine, I don't think it's for me, everyone who likes it must be mad or deficient in some way. Or you can try and work your way into, in one way or another.
 
luka

luka

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And maybe that might seem artificial and in many respects it is, and those kinds of pleasure are in some sense artificial and mediated
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Yeah I think much/most of it boils down to performances in a landscape of social survival and navigation, as we've touched upon often recently. Rather then, say, a considered and measured arrival upon a given opinion.
 
luka

luka

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And you can also say, what are the factors that condition my susceptibility to feeling things
 
WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
@WebEschatology Gave up Stonehenge on a plate, even comparisons between world heritages sites when quaintness is code for “stone clumps”. Did you know Newgrange was essentially reconstructed? All smooth lines, well defined form. Zero tumbling present now. A sound imaging test showed that reconstruction couldn’t rehabilitate the acoustics of the main Newgrange tomb, which is part of any interpretation. So, even though we don’t quite know the acoustic resonances people were hearing 5700 years ago, there’s evidence from continental tombs that illustrates long harmonic tonal drones created acoustic anomalies, as if the sound was coming from all directions (intact echoing resonances)

Please remove me from the death list and we can have a crack at the Ali documentary‘s ending
 
luka

luka

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One reason I give, when people ask how I got into poetry, is that I was fascinated by how , on some occasions, the words would glow on the page, and at other times the same text would be dead
 
luka

luka

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So I realised there was a kind of spectrum of, whatever you want to call it, openness, or susceptibility, or aliveness
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
But often when one (or maybe I'm just speaking for myself) does try to consider what is really good or worthy of appreciation, one is left with little more than a bunch of deferrals to popular opinion and relative frameworks of meaning.
luka said:
And you can also say, what are the factors that condition my susceptibility to feeling things
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Yes, and how arguably the bulk of your identity and frame of reference is comprised of this conditioning. I.e. arriving at a "genuine" and totally non-performative opinion may be a misguided or even impossible ideal.
 
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