Sunday, May 20, 2007
But, but... there are terrorists!
What a difference 4 years and a failed policy make. Generalising from an n of 1, I just realised another quality of the 28%. They have no ability to look at a world from another persons perspective. The ability to understand another's perspective is, of course, the most important part of making friends and influencing people. No wonder the US is so loved.
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really interesting debate. the interesting thing being trying to put yourself in the mindset of each person to try to understand their perspective. the blond, at her core, seemed to be driven by the fear of 'terrorists', combined with this strange idea that democrats (or ron paul, or her co-hosts) did not want to do anything about terrorism. she just plain did not seem to grasp the point that there are differing ways to deal with a problem, and that some ways are more complex and all encompassing (and longer lasting) solutions than others. that 28% number is also interesting from a cogsci-neurosci perspective. its got to map back to some core cog ability or even neuro structure. maybe a deficit in working memory and the ability to make multistep plans. maybe an overdrive of the amygdala and fear response. i wish basic cogsci/neurosci were taught at the highschool level (maybe it is nowaways along with pysch), so that people can learn to self-reflect, to ask themselves at any point in time, why am i thinking this? why is this other person thinking this? having a cogsci neurosci background gives someone a foundation to think that way.
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