Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 10/12/2024 21:04, D wrote:

Kesey said to himself "Man, this is some REALLY good shit!"
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 I think that fits percetly with the drugs affecting the speech centers! 😉

I have somewhere a very old book detailing some of the early research in that area.
In one case the subject was subjected to Rohrsach (Ink blot) tests.
In one case he was shown the blot and asked what it resembled. After a very long pause he said 'squirrels'
After the test was complete his answers were reviewed and he was asked by he had said 'squirrels'.
"Well" he said "I had a lot of trouble understanding the question, but then I did and I looked, and really it don't look like anything. But I thought 'these guys have gone to a lot of trouble, and I don't want to disappoint them', so I looked again. and I thought it looked vaguely like bears, but I couldn't remember the word for bears' so I said 'squirrels' instead"
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"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding".
Marshall McLuhan