I honestly don’t know. I lean toward no? But don’t believe me too much there.
If you think there’s something that differentiates people who are and aren’t, what is it?
The main one I’m interested in is “Do you recognize yourself in the dynamic I spelled out?”
I like Kaj bringing in that list. I think that’s helpful.
A lot of how I pick this stuff out isn’t a mental list. There’s a certain rushedness. A pressure to their excitement about and fixation on doomy things. Conversation flows in a particularly squeezy and jagged way. Body movements are… um… fitting of the pattern. :-P
There was a noticeable surge of this when Scott came out with “Meditations on Moloch”. I remember how at the EAG that year a bunch of people went and did a mock magical ceremony against Moloch. (I think Scott published it right as EAG was starting.) That totally had the energy of the thing I’m talking about. Playful, but freaked out.
I know this doesn’t help with the statistics thing. But I’m way less confident of “These are the five signs” than I am about this feeling tone.
I honestly don’t know. I lean toward no? But don’t believe me too much there.
The main one I’m interested in is “Do you recognize yourself in the dynamic I spelled out?”
I like Kaj bringing in that list. I think that’s helpful.
A lot of how I pick this stuff out isn’t a mental list. There’s a certain rushedness. A pressure to their excitement about and fixation on doomy things. Conversation flows in a particularly squeezy and jagged way. Body movements are… um… fitting of the pattern. :-P
There was a noticeable surge of this when Scott came out with “Meditations on Moloch”. I remember how at the EAG that year a bunch of people went and did a mock magical ceremony against Moloch. (I think Scott published it right as EAG was starting.) That totally had the energy of the thing I’m talking about. Playful, but freaked out.
I know this doesn’t help with the statistics thing. But I’m way less confident of “These are the five signs” than I am about this feeling tone.