A lot of excellent points in this post. I particularly like the one about having feelings about one’s own feelings, which is something I think I’ve always understood on some level but perhaps the first time I thought about it consciously was from Seth Rogan’s line in 40-Year-Old Virgin: “[Y]our depression is boring me for one thing, and it’s actually making me a little depressed, which is then in turn making me more depressed that you’re actually affecting my mood.”
I think posts like this prove a more general point: we humans are thinking on many levels of meta, all the time, and insistence on pulling the levels apart to examine separately isn’t “complicating things”; it’s just a way of seeing more clearly what’s already in our line of vision.
A lot of excellent points in this post. I particularly like the one about having feelings about one’s own feelings, which is something I think I’ve always understood on some level but perhaps the first time I thought about it consciously was from Seth Rogan’s line in 40-Year-Old Virgin: “[Y]our depression is boring me for one thing, and it’s actually making me a little depressed, which is then in turn making me more depressed that you’re actually affecting my mood.”
I think posts like this prove a more general point: we humans are thinking on many levels of meta, all the time, and insistence on pulling the levels apart to examine separately isn’t “complicating things”; it’s just a way of seeing more clearly what’s already in our line of vision.