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greetings from bizarro world
Sep. 12th, 2006 05:54 pmyou know, my friend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bibble said something once that had a deep impact on me because it was so true, it was astonishing:
"people have it all backwards"
There have just been too many examples to even really get into details, and it wouldn't do much good anyway.*
But one of the weird side effects of this is that we've built a bizarro world for ourselves where everything works backwards, too, so if you try and do things forwards, you run into all kinds of frustrations. We have to sort of "tack against the wind" to make any progress at all.
Which I think is why so many of us, in this thing of ours, identify with the image of the secret agent, ninja, magician, etc.
Everything should be very simple and easy to explain at root, but in bizarro world of course, the simplest truths require 800 page books to deal with all the backwards-thinking objections in advance. Now, it's not a "smart-dumb" thing either. Funny enough the smartest people are often the ones that are the most backwards, because they've been integrated so deeply into bizarro world.
My genetic predecessor alter-ego once called himself "the master of the obvious" because he would say seemingly obvious things that seemed revolutionary to people.
The outer universe still runs forwards, and thus we enter the post-modern society where the spiral is being driven in on itself, to eat it's own tail or die. The best truths seem contradictory to bizarro people, even though they're based on non-contradiction.
We will remix them into oblivion or die trying. And I'm not going to start talking backwards to please the bizarros.
That said, I don't know exactly how to get out of the conundrum. We'll see what happens.
* - for a good fictional example of Bizarro thinking, in the movie Armageddon, they trained a bunch of miners to become astronauts, instead of training astronauts to be miners. Now the person that pointed that out to me cited it as a criticism of the movie, but unfortunately it's just the kind of thing that would actually happen.
bibble said something once that had a deep impact on me because it was so true, it was astonishing:"people have it all backwards"
There have just been too many examples to even really get into details, and it wouldn't do much good anyway.*
But one of the weird side effects of this is that we've built a bizarro world for ourselves where everything works backwards, too, so if you try and do things forwards, you run into all kinds of frustrations. We have to sort of "tack against the wind" to make any progress at all.
Which I think is why so many of us, in this thing of ours, identify with the image of the secret agent, ninja, magician, etc.
Everything should be very simple and easy to explain at root, but in bizarro world of course, the simplest truths require 800 page books to deal with all the backwards-thinking objections in advance. Now, it's not a "smart-dumb" thing either. Funny enough the smartest people are often the ones that are the most backwards, because they've been integrated so deeply into bizarro world.
My genetic predecessor alter-ego once called himself "the master of the obvious" because he would say seemingly obvious things that seemed revolutionary to people.
The outer universe still runs forwards, and thus we enter the post-modern society where the spiral is being driven in on itself, to eat it's own tail or die. The best truths seem contradictory to bizarro people, even though they're based on non-contradiction.
We will remix them into oblivion or die trying. And I'm not going to start talking backwards to please the bizarros.
That said, I don't know exactly how to get out of the conundrum. We'll see what happens.
* - for a good fictional example of Bizarro thinking, in the movie Armageddon, they trained a bunch of miners to become astronauts, instead of training astronauts to be miners. Now the person that pointed that out to me cited it as a criticism of the movie, but unfortunately it's just the kind of thing that would actually happen.