I don’t think I’d describe myself as enjoying drama, but it’s interesting and I’m drawn to it, and if I don’t keep track of this carefully enough I go around starting it without realizing what I’m doing until too late. Generating actual drama is a good way to hurt people, so I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the same appetite appears to be indulged by working out the intricacies of relationship parameters, and keeping track of the structure of a polycule in which I am an atom, even if no drama per se exists.
Could it be said that you are simply interested in exploring social dynamics, and tend to stir them up when you’re bored as a means of gathering information from the increased contrast? After all, many systems are best studied when at their most chaotic. Polycules seem to have a certain unavoidable degree of ongoing turbulence, and include more explicit communication besides, so it would not surprise me at all that such a thing scratches the same itch.
I think it’s more along the lines of finding modeling complex social objects, with lots of belief states and preferences and dispositions and personalities and interrelationships and history and predictions for the future to keep track of, being an interesting sort of challenge that feels more weighty and meaningful than juggling similar fictional things.
I normally take it as implicit that if someone is fascinated with a given phenomenon, they will prefer direct observation / experimentation on real-world examples of that phenomenon (to the extent that such a thing is feasible) and consider fictional examples a cheaper/safer but less satisfying substitute.
I think it’s more along the lines of finding modeling complex social objects, with lots of belief states and preferences and dispositions and personalities and interrelationships and history and predictions for the future to keep track of, being an interesting sort of challenge that feels more weighty and meaningful than juggling similar fictional things.
Thank you for clarifying.
I normally take it as implicit that if someone is fascinated with a given phenomenon, they will prefer direct observation / experimentation on real-world examples of that phenomenon (to the extent that such a thing is feasible) and consider fictional examples a cheaper/safer but less satisfying substitute.