@gworley3 - yes! impro + inner game of tennis + evolving self was the
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reading _Impro_ (finally)
an exceptional study of social psychology, it's also remarkable as a conveyance of the mid-late 20C compulsion of cultural elites to maenadically shred their own cultural scaffolding
not just pulling the ladder up after them but smashing it to bits
VB Knives@Empty_America:Zoomer: "why wasn't I born into a rooted community with multigenerational living and a fixed, guaranteed life path?" Boomer/Gen X: "But I set you free! Go to Thailand or something. Have fun!"
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i have to recommend this book. the section on status exchanges alone is worth the price of admission.
its basically like a rosetta stone to social interaction for autists. everything obscure to you about normies will finally be made clear.
but
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the entire thing is salted with compulsive and egregious attacks on white people, the middle class, and americans; all of the bêtes noires of the postwar anglo left
representative aside he apparently imagined was profound: "ackshually depraved sex isn't obscene. pollution is"
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the horrible thing is johnstone's BETTER than this
hes obviously immensely insightful and capable, and postwar british education apparently was awful enough as to demand critique, pic related
but he hates the apollonian *so much* he can't help but decompose on contact
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it's one more instance of a classically-educated master refusing to teach foundational technique to students because they don't want to be UNCOOL
predictably their students end up unlettered savages. this is fine for theater ofc but a disaster elsewhere
https://metarationality.com/stem-fluidity-bridge
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two last notes
(1) mcgilchrist's _The Master and His Emissary_ (linked) posits a division of labor between left and right hemispheres
_impro_ can be understood as a set of hacks for opening direct access to right hemisphere operation
https://amzn.to/4jlHzTc
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2025-01-19yes! impro + inner game of tennis + evolving self was the original post rat reading list!