Wait till you find out that they won't let you sleep. That'll really burn your britches.
Godzilla (Japan). In one zap of the breath weapon takes out 100,000 people. No pause for reflection or comment on the meaning of it. Just immediately cut to next scene.
We don't do that in USA
Immortal 2004. (A very kickass movie if you haven't) (French). Horus (The egyptian god) has this relationship with Nickopol (badass poet/politician). It's hilarious. Horus sees humans as at best children or pets or disposable tools. There's no aside or smirk or "yeah but..". No, they just go with it 100%. 100%! That's something you don't see too often.
For example : Megadeaths happen with nary an eye batted in Japanese movies, but you rarely see that kind of thing in the American. And the total dominance of the aristocracy over the underclasses is as assumed and invisible as gravity in French movies, but it seems to be taboo elsewhere.
What I'm asking is, if you have none of those sexual urges coloring your consciousness, would you find romcoms boring?
It might set a certain mood. You feast upon the global conversational banquet, yet you still feel hungry.
One thing I think about is the incredible poverty of text.
When you look at a word you get a meaning. But that meaning, it comes mostly from your entire life's experience, your memory, what you've been taught. That's huge. And the word is very very small, comparatively.
So when you're reading, 99% of the content is coming from you. So reading is basically you just talking to yourself. And social media is a million people talking to themselves.
And that's pretty weird.
I would teach arts and crafts to grade school kids. I'm really good at that stuff (I even have a degree). And I have a good course plan worked out.
Everybody tells me I'd last about an hour tho. I am not good with stress. Grade school kids have like 3x normal energy.
Assuming that you can draw a triangle from any 3 lines, draw a triangle from lines of length 1, 2 and 3
No none of it. All the glands and appliances removed. Which leads us to my question.
Lacking all that, would romcoms be boring?
Both : Give pleasure. Alter your consciousness. Are addictive. Are delivered via a small, portable device.
Speaking as a freeform blob. Roundness? Yes, I have some ot that. Sharp pointy bits? Yep. Little tangles? Ya, a few of those too.
Yeah but it isn't the key central focus of the deal anymore then. It's just a convenient accessory.
But the point of the scientific method is to get us high-quality ideas. How would that cure the derangement of an idea-centered perspective?.
Maybe if you removed the model-making part. Leave the primacy of observation and the utility of peer-review. Maybe.
There is also the assumption of the central importance of ideas, which is a rather deranged perspective when you think about it.
Don't get me wrong, ideas have high utility, for memory and language and such, but still.
An idea is just a little thing, and any association between it and the rest of reality is purely contrived.