{"id":2032,"date":"2015-06-25T15:14:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T23:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2015-06-25T15:14:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T23:14:28","slug":"the-world-of-almost-real-some-introductory-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2032","title":{"rendered":"The World of Almost-Real: Some Introductory Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s less important that you believe this version of meta-reality than you be liberated by this example: Fairly mature people (like the author) can engage in what the psychoanalysts call \u201cadaptive regression in the service of the ego\u201d (or ARISE for short) and use this activity as a way to open their minds for fun and profit. Old, rigid structures of expectations and assumptions are dissolved for a while and in the ensuing playful chaos, often scraps of new assumptions can be found, brushed off and polished up. It\u2019s an approach to creative thinking.<\/p>\n<p>I can think straight, and at times one might say even straighter than most, even somewhat pedantic. I can detect rhetorical manipulations, logical fallacies, semantic traps. I think if most people could do this the world would be a better place, less prey to political and religious demagogues.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a limit to rationality. It\u2019s good to a point, but then really good philosophy requires that even strict rationality be transcended, else one\u2019s life becomes too dry. Other values are important too, aesthetic values. In this spirit, then, I offer these story-ettes and cartoons so as to encourage you to fantasize more boldly, share your characters, imbue them with life! If I can do it, so can you! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s less important that you believe this version of meta-reality than you be liberated by this example: Fairly mature people (like the author) can engage in what the psychoanalysts call \u201cadaptive regression in the service of the ego\u201d (or ARISE for short) and use this activity as a way to open their minds for fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-favoritethings","category-world-of-almost-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}