POWER TO THINK
The one thing that really freaks me out is when I hear colleagues in my work place , that of academia, talking with what they intend as "wisdom". Its nearly always bullshit based on non existant ideas of what is and what isnt. It seems they need to touch something for it to be real . I often wonder how they got to be in a position of trust, trust in that they are supposed to impart something that is special to people looking , maybe , for a mentor. But why are they so entrenched with the visible and the touchable. Well I was reading a website and it said one of the symptoms in adult asperger's syndrome is an "Inability to think in abstract ways" And I was just wondering what they meant by that.It means to think about something in a way other than concrete. For example, abstraction is used in any kind of art form that is not a literal representation of an image (the Mona Lisa would not be considered abstract, but one of Picasso's disorganized 'portraits' would be, for example). You also use abstract thought when you think about any concept that is not linked to a concrete object - ideas such as "love" and "peace" are abstract concepts, for example, because there is no object that is "love" or "peace" although there are symbols that may represent them. You can look at a picture of an old couple holding hands and think, "Aww, that's love" but it's not an actual IMAGE of "love", because love itself is an abstract concept.Love is just a feeling, it comes strongly then fades away drop by drop until you wonder what ever got you hot about a person or a thing.
So if adults with Asperger's syndrome have difficulty with abstract thought, it means they have problems understanding things that are not concrete or rooted in physical, tangible reality. They would not be able to create pieces of art that are not replications of reality (like Picasso's portraits, or drawing a pig with wings flying through the air, etc.), and would not be able to really grasp or discuss concepts involving abstract ideas like love, hate, peace, etc. They interpret everything in a painfully literal, concrete way.But I don't even really care what this syndrome is and it doesnt really matter if it exists or not , what matters is there are plenty of people who can only react to things rather than feel their soul.
I've never chased after a woman in my life, Its not part of what I do.Im the type who sits at home and thinks "you you you " and continue to think like that until Im over it. There was this one chick who kind of popped up out of nowhere; at first I was pretty uninterested, because she was so blindingly beautiful that I thought why waste your time chasing a dream. But she kind of made things obvious and lets face it when a beautiful woman does that you think "Why the fuck does she want me"'. Then I started to think she was mad because Im not really all that nice as regards personality at least in those days: what was it she was after, but after awhile I got to know her pretty well and she got to know me.She kinda liked the fact that I was always thinking in the abstract and that I never had anything to say that was a product of other more concrete thoughts, the day I said "I wrote this poem in my head but cannot write it down because there are no words to describe it" she became obssesed.Some people think in terms of their experiences and the things they can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell; they ask questions about objects, events, and procedures. Others think in terms of possibilities and principles; they ask questions that apply ideas in lots of different ways. Some people think in terms of specific how-to steps; they read the instruction book or do things they way they were told because each task is different. Others think in terms of relationships and patterns; they see how something they’ve done before is similar to what is being done now and use the same methods as far as they can—before reading the instructions. The Liberal Arts colleges were designed to encourage abstract thinking. While specific skills were being developed within the disciplines, the connections between them—between language and mathematics, biology and art, music and motion, for example—were emphasized. People who completed the bachelor’s degree in a traditional Liberal Arts college were able to solve problems and think “outside the box” in ways that people who’d simply learned how to do a job couldn’t.” As a result, they quickly moved up the ladder in organizations into management, went out on their own to become entrepreneurs, or stayed in academia where they could continue to explore new ideas. others set about to teach themselves, by reading and conversation with wise mentors, the same skills and processes.Now many graduate from college having been trained in a discipline, rather than having learned how to see connections between things and draw inferences based on those connections. The public school system no longer distinguishes between the two forms of learning, reinforcing only concrete thinking in most classes. So, from elementary school through college, the vast majority of Italians are being trained as concrete thinkers rather than abstract thinkers.Thus a generation of walking dead.Slaves of the tangible
The one thing that really freaks me out is when I hear colleagues in my work place , that of academia, talking with what they intend as "wisdom". Its nearly always bullshit based on non existant ideas of what is and what isnt. It seems they need to touch something for it to be real . I often wonder how they got to be in a position of trust, trust in that they are supposed to impart something that is special to people looking , maybe , for a mentor. But why are they so entrenched with the visible and the touchable. Well I was reading a website and it said one of the symptoms in adult asperger's syndrome is an "Inability to think in abstract ways" And I was just wondering what they meant by that.It means to think about something in a way other than concrete. For example, abstraction is used in any kind of art form that is not a literal representation of an image (the Mona Lisa would not be considered abstract, but one of Picasso's disorganized 'portraits' would be, for example). You also use abstract thought when you think about any concept that is not linked to a concrete object - ideas such as "love" and "peace" are abstract concepts, for example, because there is no object that is "love" or "peace" although there are symbols that may represent them. You can look at a picture of an old couple holding hands and think, "Aww, that's love" but it's not an actual IMAGE of "love", because love itself is an abstract concept.Love is just a feeling, it comes strongly then fades away drop by drop until you wonder what ever got you hot about a person or a thing.
So if adults with Asperger's syndrome have difficulty with abstract thought, it means they have problems understanding things that are not concrete or rooted in physical, tangible reality. They would not be able to create pieces of art that are not replications of reality (like Picasso's portraits, or drawing a pig with wings flying through the air, etc.), and would not be able to really grasp or discuss concepts involving abstract ideas like love, hate, peace, etc. They interpret everything in a painfully literal, concrete way.But I don't even really care what this syndrome is and it doesnt really matter if it exists or not , what matters is there are plenty of people who can only react to things rather than feel their soul.
I've never chased after a woman in my life, Its not part of what I do.Im the type who sits at home and thinks "you you you " and continue to think like that until Im over it. There was this one chick who kind of popped up out of nowhere; at first I was pretty uninterested, because she was so blindingly beautiful that I thought why waste your time chasing a dream. But she kind of made things obvious and lets face it when a beautiful woman does that you think "Why the fuck does she want me"'. Then I started to think she was mad because Im not really all that nice as regards personality at least in those days: what was it she was after, but after awhile I got to know her pretty well and she got to know me.She kinda liked the fact that I was always thinking in the abstract and that I never had anything to say that was a product of other more concrete thoughts, the day I said "I wrote this poem in my head but cannot write it down because there are no words to describe it" she became obssesed.Some people think in terms of their experiences and the things they can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell; they ask questions about objects, events, and procedures. Others think in terms of possibilities and principles; they ask questions that apply ideas in lots of different ways. Some people think in terms of specific how-to steps; they read the instruction book or do things they way they were told because each task is different. Others think in terms of relationships and patterns; they see how something they’ve done before is similar to what is being done now and use the same methods as far as they can—before reading the instructions. The Liberal Arts colleges were designed to encourage abstract thinking. While specific skills were being developed within the disciplines, the connections between them—between language and mathematics, biology and art, music and motion, for example—were emphasized. People who completed the bachelor’s degree in a traditional Liberal Arts college were able to solve problems and think “outside the box” in ways that people who’d simply learned how to do a job couldn’t.” As a result, they quickly moved up the ladder in organizations into management, went out on their own to become entrepreneurs, or stayed in academia where they could continue to explore new ideas. others set about to teach themselves, by reading and conversation with wise mentors, the same skills and processes.Now many graduate from college having been trained in a discipline, rather than having learned how to see connections between things and draw inferences based on those connections. The public school system no longer distinguishes between the two forms of learning, reinforcing only concrete thinking in most classes. So, from elementary school through college, the vast majority of Italians are being trained as concrete thinkers rather than abstract thinkers.Thus a generation of walking dead.Slaves of the tangible
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