I know this is going to sounds a bit heady, but after reading things like Edward Bernays, Marshall McLuhan, and Carl Jung, things can seem so abstracted that they don't seem real. For instance, I know many of us are a bit more resistant to propaganda than neurotypicals, so when you see simple things that people just fall into (say advertising or whatnot), it just seems very if do x, then y will happen, whereas with those on the spectrum it sometimes seems a bit more random. I hope that makes sense. Perhaps seeing the forest instead of the individual trees (the network analysis vs knowing individual people) makes it seem a bit overwhelming. Does anyone else deal with abstracting away social interactions?
12 Nov 2023, 3:15 pm
