Understanding

During my 3 hour trip to Blackpool I had a few thoughts.  I remembered the images made of interpretations of what a dog sees.  I see what I see.  I imagine you have a similar view, but your view is from a slightly different location.  If you are a dog, you might see this.  It might mean something different to you also.  Later in the day I heard a conversation from the radio programme called 'The Listening Project'.  A blind man spoke about his love of cycling.  It stuck me his view would also be  different.  The point?  Understanding others is a challenge.


I also thought about the classic bit in 'The Full Monty' when the four men are trying to learn their dance routine.  They found the timing very difficult until one of them pointed out that it was the 'Arsenal flat back four'.  This is an 'off-side trap' that has defenders running backwards in a co-ordinated line to force attacking players into 'off-side'.  The point is that the familiar context made sense and enhanced competence.

Other systemic thoughts.
Micro Anger- discussed on PM on Monday evening.  This is the drip, drip effect of comments that negatively put people down.  Fro example, where do you come from? answer 'London'.  Reply, 'no where do you really come from?'  Not an existential question but a question that excludes.

Life on Mars (Today programme.)  Discussed with the discovery of brine on Mars, the risk of introducing microbes into this ecosphere because it is known that extremophiles can exist in similar environment on Earth.