Laziness, it's like a virus - a multi-organ penetrating virus. It affects and infects insidiously, in ways we don't realize. And as we feed it, it feeds on us. Great minds simplify lives, when faced with the prospect of looming labor or hard work, or just work they don't feel like. They come up with ways, ideas, inventions that simplify. But simple, as they say, is never easy. So other minds, when facing the same prospect, oversimplify.
There are instances where we mistake our tendency towards lethargy to a tendency towards order. We feel it is us, venturing out into a big bad chaotic world to make sense out of it. Chaos theory is different. The problem, like all exams, lies in the practical. When we try to titrate chaos to make sense, or enough to get by (passing marks), we tend to oversimplify things in terms of boxing, categorizing, characterizing, stereotyping.
We don't just want things to make sense, we also want it to happen, preferably, without our involvement. Just give us the highlights - the cliff notes version of sense. And something is always lost in translation in the abbreviation. It's primarily why people whine when their beloved book, that took hours and hours to read is condensed into a 2 hour movie. Loss of translation and flavor. Like a doggy-bag of leftovers, we want all that is out there to confirm to pre-defined carton shapes
and sizes. So first you pick your lazing position. It's called your leaning, preference, tendency, political position or mindset. All different terms to define a tendency towards a certain kind of laziness. This is the prep work for future stereotyping and categorizing. Like a nightmare sequence of badly edited transitions rather than seamless segue. Oversimplifying can be like trying to fit a complex 3 dimensional character into a typical character class for an RPG action video game.
Or like taking a set of identifiable data points to create a forecast we recognize, and then squeezing the rest of the narrative to fit in it (this is not a commentary on my profession. I promise!).
Speaking of segues (now that's a segue), let's talk about movies. Or movie reviews and reviewers. Not just movies, a review of anything. Even tech and consumer products. We have pre-created categories of entertainment and consumer segments. And each new offering is to be slotted into one of these. Add to this the bias or outright disdain some reviewers carry (apple fanboy reviewers, I'm looking at you. Take off those damn airpods and look at me!). So anything that we look at is boiled down to a single verdict or worse, a single number (Rottentomatoes, you suck! Go stick an airpod up wherever). Meanwhile, Buzzfeed tells me that of the six friends, I'm Chandler (yay!). Because it has to be one of those, right? There can't be any other type of person, surely.
There are instances where we mistake our tendency towards lethargy to a tendency towards order. We feel it is us, venturing out into a big bad chaotic world to make sense out of it. Chaos theory is different. The problem, like all exams, lies in the practical. When we try to titrate chaos to make sense, or enough to get by (passing marks), we tend to oversimplify things in terms of boxing, categorizing, characterizing, stereotyping.
We don't just want things to make sense, we also want it to happen, preferably, without our involvement. Just give us the highlights - the cliff notes version of sense. And something is always lost in translation in the abbreviation. It's primarily why people whine when their beloved book, that took hours and hours to read is condensed into a 2 hour movie. Loss of translation and flavor. Like a doggy-bag of leftovers, we want all that is out there to confirm to pre-defined carton shapes
and sizes. So first you pick your lazing position. It's called your leaning, preference, tendency, political position or mindset. All different terms to define a tendency towards a certain kind of laziness. This is the prep work for future stereotyping and categorizing. Like a nightmare sequence of badly edited transitions rather than seamless segue. Oversimplifying can be like trying to fit a complex 3 dimensional character into a typical character class for an RPG action video game.
Or like taking a set of identifiable data points to create a forecast we recognize, and then squeezing the rest of the narrative to fit in it (this is not a commentary on my profession. I promise!).
Speaking of segues (now that's a segue), let's talk about movies. Or movie reviews and reviewers. Not just movies, a review of anything. Even tech and consumer products. We have pre-created categories of entertainment and consumer segments. And each new offering is to be slotted into one of these. Add to this the bias or outright disdain some reviewers carry (apple fanboy reviewers, I'm looking at you. Take off those damn airpods and look at me!). So anything that we look at is boiled down to a single verdict or worse, a single number (Rottentomatoes, you suck! Go stick an airpod up wherever). Meanwhile, Buzzfeed tells me that of the six friends, I'm Chandler (yay!). Because it has to be one of those, right? There can't be any other type of person, surely.
