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Brandon's personal style (was)

Brandon J. Van Every vanevery at 3DProgrammer.com
Tue Aug 19 03:35:44 EDT 2003 
Michael Geary wrote:
>
> Personally, I think it's worth taking a little extra effort to try to
> compensate for the limitations of the medium. If you know that people
> are more likely to misunderstand your intentions, why egg them on?

Often, I have a misanthropic idea that I can negatively educate people.  If
people "get into it," and later it is pointed out how they got themselves
into it, they might learn not to "get into it."

I don't know if in 10 years' time, I'll find it pointless to educate anybody
other than my own (future) children.  I already have a theory of static
archetypes.  Think I posted that in one of these forums, in one of these
kinds of interchanges.  Basically, people change, but people change so
slowly that you can't measure it in weeks or months.  It takes years.  So if
you're dealing with people on a timespan shorter than a year, regard them as
a static type.  They are part of a system, an ecology of types.  They are a
certain enzyme.  The Troll Hunters are a certain enzyme, so you espouse
Buddhist wisdom to them and also killfile them.  There is nothing else to do
with them right now.  Their growth will come later.

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Cheers,                         www.3DProgrammer.com
Brandon Van Every               Seattle, WA

20% of the world is real.
80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.
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