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rmSo I am moderately irritated with myself for not having written my last post when I was feeling more awake, and more specific, not about my ideas, but about the internet of my rambling. That said, everyone seems to be enjoying the discussion, which was the point, so I should probably lay off the grief I give myself.
Honestly, as bizarre as this seems, I am realitively unused to forcefully expressing my opinion except amongst people I'm very close to. I'm pretty knowledgeable about a lot of stuff -- not expert or anything, but I absorb massive quantities of data just as a rule, and yet despite this it's been too often my experience that I've known a lot of people who argued on the basis of "your opinion is wrong, I know more than you, you're just silly" and that sort of shit has historically shut me down, even when it always came from people who were entirely my kind (smart, non-experts with a lot of data). So this discussion, where I'm the least of a specific firm opinion in a specific firm way, but where I was just sort of musing, and then felt the need to defend some of that musing -- has been interesting, and more challenging for me than most people would suspect. But it's all good fun.
I'm still fighting the cold I haven't gotten yet, and am running around ragged after work and work and auditions and so forth.
I saw Fargo for the first time last time. Strange film. Smaller than I thought it would be. And more stately. Strange film.
Birthday Monday. Relevant posting/email about that soon. It's on the long to do list for this evening.
Honestly, as bizarre as this seems, I am realitively unused to forcefully expressing my opinion except amongst people I'm very close to. I'm pretty knowledgeable about a lot of stuff -- not expert or anything, but I absorb massive quantities of data just as a rule, and yet despite this it's been too often my experience that I've known a lot of people who argued on the basis of "your opinion is wrong, I know more than you, you're just silly" and that sort of shit has historically shut me down, even when it always came from people who were entirely my kind (smart, non-experts with a lot of data). So this discussion, where I'm the least of a specific firm opinion in a specific firm way, but where I was just sort of musing, and then felt the need to defend some of that musing -- has been interesting, and more challenging for me than most people would suspect. But it's all good fun.
I'm still fighting the cold I haven't gotten yet, and am running around ragged after work and work and auditions and so forth.
I saw Fargo for the first time last time. Strange film. Smaller than I thought it would be. And more stately. Strange film.
Birthday Monday. Relevant posting/email about that soon. It's on the long to do list for this evening.
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Date: 2004-09-29 04:22 pm (UTC)I remember learning to speak out, to argue, to hold my ground from the intellectual rightness of my position.
It's still hard, when I go into a new forum and start holding forth, but it's what I do... Arguement and debate are part and parcel of who I am, and the discussion matters.
No arguement, no synthesis.
TK
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Date: 2004-09-29 05:59 pm (UTC)I actually love the weirdness of this film. There are moments of pure pause. They don't come more noir. Or stranget.
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Date: 2004-09-29 11:50 pm (UTC)dude. lj title of the year.
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Date: 2004-09-30 05:51 am (UTC)