Comments on Fluffytek Art Blog: Art, Conflict and Pot-Stirring

OK, I admit it. Poor Iris shares her blog with he...

2008-03-01T03:21:00.000Z

OK, I admit it. Poor Iris shares her blog with her polar opposite in this regard. I don't give a rap if there is soap opera. Better yet. When I see everyone sitting around on their couches in their safe little havens of silence, I get this impulse to stir the pot. Not just for the sake of stirring things up, nope, not ever. I feel passionate about things, and passionate about passion.

From research done with POWs during WWII, social scientists came up with the "inoculation theory" based on evidence that prisons of war from democratic societies were much harder to brainwash than POWs from dictatorial systems. Scientists concluded this was because people whose beliefs were constantly challenged, who had the freedom and occasion to debate and defend their beliefs, became "inoculated" against brainwashing.

So I say, stir it up, Lin, keep that pot bubbling with toil and trouble.

And thanks also for being there for me when I've been banged on the head for pot stirring and come to you licking my wounds.

Agreed Sylvaine, but on the other hand, if you don...

2008-02-28T10:39:00.000Z

Agreed Sylvaine, but on the other hand, if you don't push people to think outside their personal comfort zones, then how are they ever going to learn to think from a new and different perpective?

«Notre grande erreur est d'essayer d'obtenir de ch...

2008-02-28T10:32:00.000Z

«Notre grande erreur est d'essayer d'obtenir de chacun en particulier les vertus qu'il n'a pas, et de négliger de cultiver celles qu'il possède.» Marguerite Yourcenar

Always something interesting to read here!Conflict...

2008-02-28T10:25:00.000Z

Always something interesting to read here!
Conflict. I mostly agree with you. It's only when mole hills become mountains, and the drama coaster comes in motion that I prefer to shy away. At that point it becomes just too draining, and it's not worth my time and energy. It's all about finding some type of balance, and about acting out the conflict within the realms of a certain level of reason and logic. Not everybody has to agree on everything, not everybody has to like the same things, but if conflict turns into a soap opera, it's just so much better to walk away.