Perspective
Imagine, if you will, the structure of a brain cell. It's likely that's a difficult task, so here's a picture:
Chances are if one needed visual proof of a brain cell, one would have every reason to believe given picture is indeed a brain cell. But it isn't; I just like fucking with people. This one is a genuine cell:
The former, instead, is actually a computer image in a simulated design of our universe. The minute specs in the sky represent such a fractal number that it's simply ridiculous. That's not to mention the size and scale of each of those tiny flickers of light hitting our planet's atmosphere.
And to top that all off, we're just part of some big ass brain cell in a dude. Any moment he could jam his finger up his nose, and bam. We're gone.
Perspective. It's not really something I was taught, personally. Can't recall any teachers defining it for us, or elaborating on its importance in our every day lives. Regardless, most every human capable of basic social interaction has a grasp on it. It just seems decidedly ignored as of late.
Take, for instance, the Internet. Whether to the generation before mine, or those after, it's given an unbelievable amount of information and social experience overnight--as far as cultural development is involved. I'd read somewhere just recently that the average person is exposed to knowledge equivalent to an entire lifespan in the 19th centuy in one day. How is it one so liberal in input can be so narrowminded?
"This is my opinion, and therefore it is right." Naturally, if it's me. But everyone else just doesn't get it. It's a social construct that was plaguing pretty much anywhere all the time, but with the instantaneous transference of knowledge globally, it's honestly a little surprising how it can survive. Hell, just recently we used DNA evidence to trace every human ever back to Africa. That still doesn't stop racial bias. Hideo Kojima mentioned he had to cut some sequences from Metal Gear Solid 3 because of limited DVD space. That doesn't stop 'but Oblivion fit on one DVD.'
If anything, it seems we're taking a step backward. In 1997, Cheney mentioned in an interview that the 160-plus casualties in attempting to capture Saddam Hussein were just too great. Even after topping the dictator, what would happen to the region but unrest and constant fighting? Well, ten years later, that's what we've got and four thousand casualties casually hanging from out belts. Despite the information being laid out and politics spit into our faces.
The point is, though, is that thinking from another's perspective seems to be the last thing on just about anyone's mind. The world doesn't exactly revolve on love or kindness but it's a simple gesture, no matter how invisible, that can make a huge difference. Plus it's fun.
Chances are if one needed visual proof of a brain cell, one would have every reason to believe given picture is indeed a brain cell. But it isn't; I just like fucking with people. This one is a genuine cell:
The former, instead, is actually a computer image in a simulated design of our universe. The minute specs in the sky represent such a fractal number that it's simply ridiculous. That's not to mention the size and scale of each of those tiny flickers of light hitting our planet's atmosphere.
And to top that all off, we're just part of some big ass brain cell in a dude. Any moment he could jam his finger up his nose, and bam. We're gone.
Perspective. It's not really something I was taught, personally. Can't recall any teachers defining it for us, or elaborating on its importance in our every day lives. Regardless, most every human capable of basic social interaction has a grasp on it. It just seems decidedly ignored as of late.
Take, for instance, the Internet. Whether to the generation before mine, or those after, it's given an unbelievable amount of information and social experience overnight--as far as cultural development is involved. I'd read somewhere just recently that the average person is exposed to knowledge equivalent to an entire lifespan in the 19th centuy in one day. How is it one so liberal in input can be so narrowminded?
"This is my opinion, and therefore it is right." Naturally, if it's me. But everyone else just doesn't get it. It's a social construct that was plaguing pretty much anywhere all the time, but with the instantaneous transference of knowledge globally, it's honestly a little surprising how it can survive. Hell, just recently we used DNA evidence to trace every human ever back to Africa. That still doesn't stop racial bias. Hideo Kojima mentioned he had to cut some sequences from Metal Gear Solid 3 because of limited DVD space. That doesn't stop 'but Oblivion fit on one DVD.'
If anything, it seems we're taking a step backward. In 1997, Cheney mentioned in an interview that the 160-plus casualties in attempting to capture Saddam Hussein were just too great. Even after topping the dictator, what would happen to the region but unrest and constant fighting? Well, ten years later, that's what we've got and four thousand casualties casually hanging from out belts. Despite the information being laid out and politics spit into our faces.
The point is, though, is that thinking from another's perspective seems to be the last thing on just about anyone's mind. The world doesn't exactly revolve on love or kindness but it's a simple gesture, no matter how invisible, that can make a huge difference. Plus it's fun.
posted by Roddra at 05:32
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