You heard it here first?
Posted: June 10th, 2023, 10:46 am
What with one thing or another (and another, and another, and another...!) over the last decade or more, I have been puzzling over the weirdness of people (i.e. of my 'fellow citizens', not myself. Obviously!).
When I first had free time to indulge the Internet at leisure I soon came to a conclusion that, at the time, was a sort of joke with a grain of truth. It was summed up by my personal Internet saying: "It wasn't until I got the Internet that I realised everyone else was insane."
That was then, this is now! Twenty or so years later it seems less funny, precisely as it apperas to be more true...
What's going on? (I can't be the only one asking this.)
Previously, I guess like most(?) people, I had an unconsidered view that everyone normal(?) was pretty well the same in essence under the skin. Of course people differ - in character and personality, opinions, tastes, political and religious views and values. We all knew this and accepted it as 'normal' (didn't we?). Some poor souls actually are "mad", but they are the exception, not the rule. At the end of the day we are all in this together, aren't we?
For some while now, increasingly, the above everyday, simple assumptions have not been working for me. They don't seem to explain current reality. I sometimes get the feeling that some of my 'fellow citizens' and myself are from different species...
How to explain this? I have come up with a new(?) dimension of human characterisation: such as Introvert vs Extrovert.
This is: Receptorvists vs Projectorvists
Receptorvists ("Hello!") tend to take in and be influenced by the world of reality as it is. They are therefore, in their opinions and views, to some extent modulated or limited by what seems to be the outside world. Projectorvists don't. They have an idea or ideas in their head about how the world is, or ought to be, and their opinions and views are projected outwards onto the world. To me, this seems a possible way of understanding, or at least illuminating, what is going on in the world today.
Is this a novel interpretation of human beings, or is it all already well known?
One could take this further into political opinions and views but, as this is TLF, I won't.
When I first had free time to indulge the Internet at leisure I soon came to a conclusion that, at the time, was a sort of joke with a grain of truth. It was summed up by my personal Internet saying: "It wasn't until I got the Internet that I realised everyone else was insane."
That was then, this is now! Twenty or so years later it seems less funny, precisely as it apperas to be more true...
What's going on? (I can't be the only one asking this.)
Previously, I guess like most(?) people, I had an unconsidered view that everyone normal(?) was pretty well the same in essence under the skin. Of course people differ - in character and personality, opinions, tastes, political and religious views and values. We all knew this and accepted it as 'normal' (didn't we?). Some poor souls actually are "mad", but they are the exception, not the rule. At the end of the day we are all in this together, aren't we?
For some while now, increasingly, the above everyday, simple assumptions have not been working for me. They don't seem to explain current reality. I sometimes get the feeling that some of my 'fellow citizens' and myself are from different species...
How to explain this? I have come up with a new(?) dimension of human characterisation: such as Introvert vs Extrovert.
This is: Receptorvists vs Projectorvists
Receptorvists ("Hello!") tend to take in and be influenced by the world of reality as it is. They are therefore, in their opinions and views, to some extent modulated or limited by what seems to be the outside world. Projectorvists don't. They have an idea or ideas in their head about how the world is, or ought to be, and their opinions and views are projected outwards onto the world. To me, this seems a possible way of understanding, or at least illuminating, what is going on in the world today.
Is this a novel interpretation of human beings, or is it all already well known?
One could take this further into political opinions and views but, as this is TLF, I won't.