lamer-ass in perth

If I may speak a little cryptically just for a change...


I am aware that a tendency to feel the world through parochial gloves must be very common in an isolated city, and that this tendency has an effect of unthinking reflex, which also comes across as an extreme narrow mindedness and intellectual foolishness. I wonder what difference it would make if other people saw themselves how I saw them? I suspect that to some low degree, this happens anyway.

Yet, a substantial difference in perception of others appears to have its roots in very different emotional constitutions, borne out of cultural conditioning.

We do get a sense of how someone else sees us, through the empathy-creating pathways created by our neurological cells.

We all reverberate with each other, to some degree.

Yet, at the higher level of mind, do we interpret the reverberations accurately? Do our emotions, reflected by mirror cells reverberate with a cognitive sense the genuine intent of the other?

Or do they at times merely flail around in the soup of a quite parochial emotion......?

Why am I speaking in this way? Well because of certain events which give me the impression that many people mistake their experience of a certain reverberation of their emotional strings when they are speaking to a person as a reflection of the other's moral rectitude

They mistake the condition of their emotional sensibilities created during childhood with a true and objective standard for behaviour. sadder still, such people also tend to mistake any non-reverberation of the heartstrings (in other words, unfamiliarity with a type of person), to be a sign of the other person lacking moral rectitude.

I have encountered this outlook again and again: a tendency to conflate an emotional of sensations -- made up of very familiar encultured emotions -- with the very condition of moral rectitude (or even "logic") which is seen as existing or not existing in another person. In a nutshell: we are prone to be biased in favour of those brought up within similar cultural conditions to ourselves and against those who give us feelings we can't quite understand.

We may tend to be reflexively biased against those who -- for cultural reasons -- have a different emotional makeup from ourselves. In culturally isolated Perth , there continues to remain a general cultural bias in favour a narrow and parochical feel for "correct" behaviour -- and bias towards those whose behaviour suggests a wider range of emotions than is commonly perceived as "normal".

Thus in Perth we have many, many fools, acting out a misappropriated sense of moral indignation -- actually nothing more than a reflexive and unconscious bigotry against The New.

I see these fools in a much different and less flattering light than obviously they see themselves.