The Proficiologist

Of Lenses and Experiences

What secrets can we find, deep within the generic mind?
What secrets will he find, through lenses trapped within his own mind?

In my pre­vi­ous post, I explained how con­text deeply per­me­ates every thought and action in the generic soci­ety, and how mis­takes such as the inter­nal attri­bu­tion error or the ratio­nal choice assump­tion con­stantly pre­vent gener­ics from con­nect­ing with one another. Did my over­all pes­simism about the gener­ics’ abil­ity to under­stand con­text change the way you view their soci­ety? Are most gener­ics forced to expe­ri­ence life in total emo­tional iso­la­tion? What value is there in a life with­out shared expe­ri­ences or the abil­ity to form a deeper con­nec­tion with others?

Sure, the gener­ics con­stantly fight or argue over petty issues, but at least they haven’t col­lec­tively despaired and declared all their inter­ac­tions mean­ing­less. Generics are usu­ally aware of their lim­ited abil­ity to con­tex­tu­al­ize each other’s actions, so clearly they must still value some­thing. As it turns out, gener­ics aren’t fatal­is­tic beings wait­ing for a mean­ing­less life to flash before their eyes. Each generic sen­tient being is on a jour­ney of self-improve­ment, slowly tweak­ing his beliefs to accom­mo­date the seem­ingly incom­pre­hen­si­ble choices of those around him. The gener­ics will find mean­ing in their inter­pre­ta­tions and judg­ments even if they later find flaws in their rea­son­ing. They feel euphoric when they under­stand a friend slightly bet­ter than before, even if his choices still seem like a com­plete mys­tery. If you had back­door access to the generic mind, you could watch hun­dreds of gener­ics bump­ing into one another try­ing mak­ing sense of their jum­bled world, and truly appre­ci­ate the inevitabil­ity of this life­long jour­ney. The ana­lyst in me nat­u­rally wanted to know if these gener­ics had any hope of suc­cess. Of course, in my attempt to answer this ques­tion I ended up cre­at­ing a very com­plex the­ory on the inner work­ings of the generic mind.