hang your hat
I'm so fully removed from when i was detached from myself. I guess it could be described that way. being detached. at that time, though, i would never agree that there was a correct description of anything. i was always getting what people said but missing their point. how can you tell someone that's missing your point that their missing your point.
there have been other examples where i've recognized myself and that state of mind, but recently i saw a Next Generation that was especially poignant. i'll mention it because it was most recent but also because the further i get away from Then in time each subsequent example seems more impactful and real and definite. i'm becoming more willing to define what i was and move on. but anyway, i'll crack on with this.
the characters had their ability to enter REM sleep blockaded. eventually, without dreaming, they began to go crazy, as it were. i recognized myself in the way the actors portrayed the exhausted characters. data would try to explain something to picard and you could see him concentrating with an effort. data would need at least a few connected sentences to get his point across but picard could never link anything together. data would state something obvious (perhaps that the warp drives were inoperable) with the intentions of carrying on towards the solution, but picard would get caught up in considering if, in fact, the warp drives were indeed inoperable and after he'd come to the conclusion that yes, by the love of god, they most certainly are and that everyone knows that that's the problem, and then he'd get upset and feel like data was patronizing him. data would realize that picard's mind was incapable of taking any assertions for granted or that he was giving undue concentration to things that shouldn't have high prioritation, and so data'd just carry out his own plans.
the characters couldn't see where people were going. instead they'd incessently examine the truth of each particular thing someone told to them. they'd realize that they didn't know anything for sure and many of them became as animals and tried to fight.
say a word long enough and it loses meaning. take something out of context and it loses meaning. take feeling out of conversation and there is no point to it. language is very key when conveying information, but also for conveying feeling and sharing of strife. i can overlook it if your words don't have any factual truth to them if i can recognize that you're truthfully trying to get across a true feeling. these are times when it is not so important to be exact. i think this is called scope, or something. heh, or maybe common sense.
there have been other examples where i've recognized myself and that state of mind, but recently i saw a Next Generation that was especially poignant. i'll mention it because it was most recent but also because the further i get away from Then in time each subsequent example seems more impactful and real and definite. i'm becoming more willing to define what i was and move on. but anyway, i'll crack on with this.
the characters had their ability to enter REM sleep blockaded. eventually, without dreaming, they began to go crazy, as it were. i recognized myself in the way the actors portrayed the exhausted characters. data would try to explain something to picard and you could see him concentrating with an effort. data would need at least a few connected sentences to get his point across but picard could never link anything together. data would state something obvious (perhaps that the warp drives were inoperable) with the intentions of carrying on towards the solution, but picard would get caught up in considering if, in fact, the warp drives were indeed inoperable and after he'd come to the conclusion that yes, by the love of god, they most certainly are and that everyone knows that that's the problem, and then he'd get upset and feel like data was patronizing him. data would realize that picard's mind was incapable of taking any assertions for granted or that he was giving undue concentration to things that shouldn't have high prioritation, and so data'd just carry out his own plans.
the characters couldn't see where people were going. instead they'd incessently examine the truth of each particular thing someone told to them. they'd realize that they didn't know anything for sure and many of them became as animals and tried to fight.
say a word long enough and it loses meaning. take something out of context and it loses meaning. take feeling out of conversation and there is no point to it. language is very key when conveying information, but also for conveying feeling and sharing of strife. i can overlook it if your words don't have any factual truth to them if i can recognize that you're truthfully trying to get across a true feeling. these are times when it is not so important to be exact. i think this is called scope, or something. heh, or maybe common sense.
on a whim, chad was marco @ 6:36 PM
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