Writer's Block: Mind reader
Jul. 6th, 2010 06:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It's interesting that out of all the people I am thinking of for this are, I am more interested much more in them reading my mind than I am in reading their mind. In short, I would want them to face the consequences of their actions.
For example choosing a religious leader so they could sense and feel the effect their teachings have upon people like homosexuals and lesbians who the religion persecutes, and also see that such people aren't the evil monsters that the theology makes them out to be. Maybe that demonstration might help the various problem religions to be more compassionate and less, well, inhuman.
Or maybe a politician, so they could read a typical voter's frustration at the focus upon mudslinging and rhetoric rather than substance.
Perhaps a hollywood script writer so they could sense how annoying it is that they create nothing new and just re-hash and re-make old stories that were done well the first time. Why they think that cramming in references to old shows or movies counts as funny and entertaining is a mystery to me. The (type) movie series is a classic example, just cramming in a disjointed series of famous scenes from other movies and pretending they've created something worth watching. Scary Movie, Teen Movie, etc.
If there were one thing about that challenge I would want to change though it would be to alter it so I could select two people to read each other's minds...that's about the only way I can see to stop some of the generational conflicts like Israel vs Palestine and so on. Actually that's a bad idea, each grudge-bearing leader I chose would probably revel in the pain and suffering of the other, and learn nothing. Damn...
Anyway, much rambling later, whatever person I picked could keep their thoughts to themselves. I'd be more interested in letting them read my mind and see themselves through another's eyes. All in the hope they would stop doing whatever it was they were doing that got them selected in the first place.
It's interesting that out of all the people I am thinking of for this are, I am more interested much more in them reading my mind than I am in reading their mind. In short, I would want them to face the consequences of their actions.
For example choosing a religious leader so they could sense and feel the effect their teachings have upon people like homosexuals and lesbians who the religion persecutes, and also see that such people aren't the evil monsters that the theology makes them out to be. Maybe that demonstration might help the various problem religions to be more compassionate and less, well, inhuman.
Or maybe a politician, so they could read a typical voter's frustration at the focus upon mudslinging and rhetoric rather than substance.
Perhaps a hollywood script writer so they could sense how annoying it is that they create nothing new and just re-hash and re-make old stories that were done well the first time. Why they think that cramming in references to old shows or movies counts as funny and entertaining is a mystery to me. The (type) movie series is a classic example, just cramming in a disjointed series of famous scenes from other movies and pretending they've created something worth watching. Scary Movie, Teen Movie, etc.
If there were one thing about that challenge I would want to change though it would be to alter it so I could select two people to read each other's minds...that's about the only way I can see to stop some of the generational conflicts like Israel vs Palestine and so on. Actually that's a bad idea, each grudge-bearing leader I chose would probably revel in the pain and suffering of the other, and learn nothing. Damn...
Anyway, much rambling later, whatever person I picked could keep their thoughts to themselves. I'd be more interested in letting them read my mind and see themselves through another's eyes. All in the hope they would stop doing whatever it was they were doing that got them selected in the first place.
