QUOTE(RDH(Ghost In The Machine) @ Thu 29th April 2010, 12:08pm)
QUOTE(Moulton @ Thu 29th April 2010, 3:57pm)
How can they declare a war on drama, especially on the Internet's premier drama engine?!?
Wikiland is hardly noted for its self-awareness or internal consistency. (IMG:
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A week or so ago, I was listening to one of those hour-long academic lectures on my local NPR station, on the subject of self-awareness and self-examination (in the sense first suggested by Socrates). The speaker's thesis was that one can come to self-awareness by several methods.
One method corresponds to the kind of analysis most people would do with the aid of a psychologist. Such an analysis would deconstruct the salient features of one's psychological makeup (or personality), perhaps including a clinical diagnosis from DSM IV. The other method is by telling the backstory of one's life. Every life has its idiosyncratic story or personal drama, and there is a relationship between one's personal narrative and the kind of clinical or psychological analysis that corresponds to (and explains) the story of one's life.
It occurs to me that WikiCulture is inhabited by people who are largely resistant to either form of self-examination and self-analysis.