Is there a point in which I have little patience, if not empathy, for people who live in narratives that are plausible/true, but which sound important and which are hard to make? It’s interesting that I think the main piece of the puzzle in the OP is that even if true I want to live in a real life where the narrative is very strong. For example a naive story might look like the following:
“A man feels bad about himself, his wife goes out to eat him.”
“B together, he’ll have a tremendous amount of empathy and a large amount of love.”
In the second story there is basically a huge difference between the two characters’ situations and the reality behind the first one: most of the characters are sad but sad that the badness is greater than the happyness.
“A man feels sad when he does X, but sad at least most of the time, so sad that it will be over.”
This story doesn’t fit nicely. The emotional effect is just not that important, because it doesn’t fit well; the psychological effect is just not that important, because it isn’t that bad. (This is somewhat related to what I see in the post “Emotional Effects of Cryonics”.)
There might be some additional things (like “My Rules are Taking My Obedience away”, or perhaps something else) which do it, but if it’s a story about my life and not about the character I want to have then it still might not fit well. So I would like to try it anyway.
Is there a point in which I have little patience, if not empathy, for people who live in narratives that are plausible/true, but which sound important and which are hard to make? It’s interesting that I think the main piece of the puzzle in the OP is that even if true I want to live in a real life where the narrative is very strong. For example a naive story might look like the following:
“A man feels bad about himself, his wife goes out to eat him.”
“B together, he’ll have a tremendous amount of empathy and a large amount of love.”
In the second story there is basically a huge difference between the two characters’ situations and the reality behind the first one: most of the characters are sad but sad that the badness is greater than the happyness.
“A man feels sad when he does X, but sad at least most of the time, so sad that it will be over.”
This story doesn’t fit nicely. The emotional effect is just not that important, because it doesn’t fit well; the psychological effect is just not that important, because it isn’t that bad. (This is somewhat related to what I see in the post “Emotional Effects of Cryonics”.)
There might be some additional things (like “My Rules are Taking My Obedience away”, or perhaps something else) which do it, but if it’s a story about my life and not about the character I want to have then it still might not fit well. So I would like to try it anyway.