tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37140179.post5148065543212586071..comments2023-07-14T08:40:52.761-07:00Comments on the rabbit eater: antfarmcatminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02817599862112800290noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37140179.post-39556171080849444752011-04-26T15:48:06.965-07:002011-04-26T15:48:06.965-07:00Oh god - in my twenties I was reading stuff like -...Oh god - in my twenties I was reading stuff like - Art and Anti-Art, 1000 plateaus, and Debord's biography - "all power to the imagination!" etc - and I'd deliberately give spontaneous answers in these work things - which was really a bad idea, and harmed my career.<br /><br />Really, I try to take these things as seriously as everyone else, and I try to be humble with respect to the people I deal with and their experience - which is why I was genuinely shocked by intelligent, thoughtful people buying into a lot of nonsense. It isn't that I think the results of these quizzes are totally useless - it's how shabbily the proof is assembled - by improbable authorities, by insinuation and metaphor, as proved when rigorously unproveable due to the number of variables.<br /><br />anyway, thanks for your commentcatmint4noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37140179.post-31077581175551654502011-04-25T13:47:14.114-07:002011-04-25T13:47:14.114-07:00I quite enjoy that nonsense when I've been coe...I quite enjoy that nonsense when I've been coerced into it. In my twenties, I'd revise it for chat-up schtick. If you deliberately lie on about two or three questions, you can end up as three very different 'people'. Great to hear the 'experts' tell you you're 'complicated' when you don't fit their grid.David K Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10756535951359716522noreply@blogger.com