I think the island you’re describing (“Fuzzy System 1 Stuff”?) slightly overlaps with but is significantly different from the one I had in mind. Probably only a small subset of rationalist fiction/poetry will be specifically designed to solve these motivational/emotional blocks.
The island I’m referring to is motivated by the idea that humor and truth-detection are closely linked (see the word “wit”). There’s something really curious and right about bursting into laughter when you prove a theorem, and about the mythological narrative that the Fool is the only one who can speak the truth (Jordan Peterson says the Fool is the precursor to the Savior). This is why the state of comedy and satire is supposed to be a good metric of intellectual freedom.
I’m pretty excited about your island too. One similar piece of weird shit I’m currently exploring is lucid dreaming, which may have the same effect as circling/mythology for a different subset of people. E.g. I noticed that I have had two dreams in the last month about leading groups of friends through secret passageways at Harvard. I can only interpret this dream as about being extremely motivated by status signalling with elite privileges. Of course this is obvious in hindsight but was sobering and surprising at the time.
I think a number of the things I’ve written on Jung, for example, fit better into your island than the comedy one.
I think the island you’re describing (“Fuzzy System 1 Stuff”?) slightly overlaps with but is significantly different from the one I had in mind. Probably only a small subset of rationalist fiction/poetry will be specifically designed to solve these motivational/emotional blocks.
The island I’m referring to is motivated by the idea that humor and truth-detection are closely linked (see the word “wit”). There’s something really curious and right about bursting into laughter when you prove a theorem, and about the mythological narrative that the Fool is the only one who can speak the truth (Jordan Peterson says the Fool is the precursor to the Savior). This is why the state of comedy and satire is supposed to be a good metric of intellectual freedom.
I’m pretty excited about your island too. One similar piece of weird shit I’m currently exploring is lucid dreaming, which may have the same effect as circling/mythology for a different subset of people. E.g. I noticed that I have had two dreams in the last month about leading groups of friends through secret passageways at Harvard. I can only interpret this dream as about being extremely motivated by status signalling with elite privileges. Of course this is obvious in hindsight but was sobering and surprising at the time.
I think a number of the things I’ve written on Jung, for example, fit better into your island than the comedy one.
What have you written on Jung? Can you link to your top one or two posts?
I’ve really only touched on tiny pieces motivated by Jung, say Circumambulation and Solitaire Principle.