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From: spinyanon
Date: 13 Apr 2004
Time: 15:40:11 -0500
Remote Name: 66.168.30.92
There's something called flow (the idea was explored by a guy at U of Chicago named Chicksantmahaly, forgive the mangled spelling,) which surgeons, athletes, artists, musicians and composers describe that sounds like what you have in your work life, Foxfires. It's interesting how your dream life weaves through your experience, too. Autism and Schizophrenia would be the opposite of that, I guess, when the ability to sort and prioritize the stimuli breaks down. Reading the news these days definitely makes me feel crazy. More than the information overload, I worry about people's tendency to shut out alternate views and to discredit any information that opposes their opinions. Maybe it's an artifact of information overload, though. I believe art can be a means to cut through calloused prejudice and disarm our mental censors, to allow us a more direct experience of our lives and each other.