Saturday, February 11, 2017

Teaching

    The struggle with teaching has always been reaching everybody's perspective, it's always two-way street. Unfortunately, people tend to listen more for the entertainment value than the informative value, or don't know how to fill the boredom void with their own thoughts in an interesting way so they can actually learn something. So maybe it's about how to activate people's imaginations in the most constructive way to open a broader conversation space both within and between individuals. That's been debated for thousands of years.

    The Ancient Greek thing to do is just to jam as much perspective as possible into the most stylin' and culturally loaded lines and references you've ever beheld. It totally works, and was developed to make plays the Greek state's official method of education and indoctrination for the civilly illiterate masses of the day. It's like casting a really really wide net for capturing people's consciousnesses. Read Euripides' plays for ref (he was a rebel and a way better writer than the others imo), he was one of those naturalist sophists, or of the same schools where Socrates came from. Also google Mimesis (Plato) and Anti-Mimesis (Oscar Wilde's spin). We owe a lot of our abilities with language to these guys.
 
Modern example of mimesis: Alchemy of Race and Rights by Patricia Williams

Just found this brain blast:
“From the Collective Unconscious to the Narrative Unconscious” by Mark Freeman, Nov 2016 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114869/

Now we get to meet the Biz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J42F4Bp97k4

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