So according to this article I have gay fingers? And according to this one drinking could fuel me to previously unforeseen creative heights. And according to this one Fight Club’s Jack is really Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes.
This comes under the category: science = hilarious. Along with ‘the cosmos tastes like raspberries and smells like rum’.
While there’s a level of science behind all of them: experimental, theoretical or psychological it’s looks like the sort of science where someone’s thought, that would be cool and then just went with it. And it doesn’t make no sense, it makes slightly left of sense. And there’s certain supporting evidence. And no one’s disproved it yet.
And as long as that continues to be the case it’s just as valid as any other scientific theory. Which… I’m back at hilarious. Because every one of those strikes me as a bit post hoc ergo propter hoc (the thing therefore because of the thing). Like, if your fingers are like this then you have a tendency towards being a lesbian, if you’re brilliantly creative and you drink, maybe it’s because of the drink, the fact that you can draw parallels between the two characters means that Calvin is a very messed up kid.
Which isn’t to say they’re wrong. Just that journalists do like to sensationalise theories. Also, the internet is weird. Which is not news. But it makes me laugh because I am very sleepy. So I’m going to nap now and cuddle my teddy bear and dream about raspberry flavoured rum.
Kandace Mavrick
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jasssa
06/09/2011
There’s nothing wrong with them being theories, but it frustrates me when people (including myself) treat theories as fact – either knowingly or as a result of misinformation/things becoming heresay.
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
Kandace Mavrick
06/09/2011
Yeah, I mean the first thing I did when reading those was check out my fingers, consider becoming an alcoholic and feel a strong urge to lick the cosmos. But that’s because I am insatiably curious. I DIDN’T pull out the port (that was last night), tell Rick I’d clearly been mistaken in my sexuality or… actually I don’t know what I could have done about that last one. Theories are entertaining. But you know that phrase ‘in theory’? It has an ominous sound for a reason.
random ntrygg
07/09/2011
alcohol and other things merely lower inhibition
and it’s cognitive disinhibition that allows you to connect dots that have no apparent connection
the trick is, if you write or paint or create something when you’re in a less inhibited state – is it still a creative work that is comprehensible when the creator and audience aren’t buzzed
Kandace Mavrick
07/09/2011
Mn. I definitely think it could help in terms of quieting the analytical portion of your mind and letting you free associate but drunk people also often think the most idiotic things are a good idea.
I definitely see it as one of those things that COULD work but probably just as often would end in disaster. Or, you know, setting fire to your manuscript because in a fit of neurosis you hate everything.
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