A Toast to "Lessened Hostility"
Aug. 17th, 2007 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mlerules*sigh* - the cat's turned off, the kitten-heads're clustering, the temp's cooled down, the jacuzzi beckons but I'm too tired to indulge...even though I could just open up the bedroom window and crawl out onto the deck, push off the top, and melt into the hot water. Today was an odd day. Accomplished little...or so it seemed at the time. Now perhaps it's dawning on me that Taking It Easy is in and of itself A Good Thing.
Tomorrow I'll have fambily over and around through dinner-time (still dunno what I'll make for 'em...will figure it out when the time comes). Sunday'll be spent w/them again, at least 'til late afternoon/early eve. Next week there's nothing on the calendar 'til Friday morning when dad and his wife arrive to stay w/me 'til sometime on Monday. It's odd having nothing scheduled. Dawg knows I've got things to do. Who knows what I'll actually do though.
Now that doing laundry isn't such a production, it also doesn't feel like such an accomplishment either. Neither does putting together a couple of IKEA bookshelves (initially typed "building" but it's NOT so I re-verb-phrased it). It's as if it doesn't count (it = doing whatever) unless it's Big, Bold, Impressive, Different, Something Other Than Same Ole Same Ole.
Read something today that's been bugging me. Even though this is out of context so you don't get a real flavor of the discussion (and I cannot easily right now trace back the link for anyone who cares) and I don't really believe in the direct causal connection, the upshot (net effect/symptom) does appear to describe attitudes/actions which abound for whatEVER reason:
"Virtual worlds reinforce the popular culture drive for self-satisfaction and self-realization above all other goals; users of virtual worlds cease to see other human beings as human, but instead perceive them as tools to maximize their own pleasure/goals/desires."
But if'n these goals/desires (from which one derives pleasure) are community-based, than other folks're necessary. This sends my mind spinning down paths of creating community vs. maintaining community. Community as r-ships 'tween folks w/common ground/path/direction/goal/motive/desire/interest. Limerance. Will it last or flicker out? Is it driven by personality or something larger than any one person? Engagement is vital.
Tomorrow I'll have fambily over and around through dinner-time (still dunno what I'll make for 'em...will figure it out when the time comes). Sunday'll be spent w/them again, at least 'til late afternoon/early eve. Next week there's nothing on the calendar 'til Friday morning when dad and his wife arrive to stay w/me 'til sometime on Monday. It's odd having nothing scheduled. Dawg knows I've got things to do. Who knows what I'll actually do though.
Now that doing laundry isn't such a production, it also doesn't feel like such an accomplishment either. Neither does putting together a couple of IKEA bookshelves (initially typed "building" but it's NOT so I re-verb-phrased it). It's as if it doesn't count (it = doing whatever) unless it's Big, Bold, Impressive, Different, Something Other Than Same Ole Same Ole.
Read something today that's been bugging me. Even though this is out of context so you don't get a real flavor of the discussion (and I cannot easily right now trace back the link for anyone who cares) and I don't really believe in the direct causal connection, the upshot (net effect/symptom) does appear to describe attitudes/actions which abound for whatEVER reason:
"Virtual worlds reinforce the popular culture drive for self-satisfaction and self-realization above all other goals; users of virtual worlds cease to see other human beings as human, but instead perceive them as tools to maximize their own pleasure/goals/desires."
But if'n these goals/desires (from which one derives pleasure) are community-based, than other folks're necessary. This sends my mind spinning down paths of creating community vs. maintaining community. Community as r-ships 'tween folks w/common ground/path/direction/goal/motive/desire/interest. Limerance. Will it last or flicker out? Is it driven by personality or something larger than any one person? Engagement is vital.
