DISQUS

Catskill Cottage Seed: The question of influence…

  • Liz Strauss · 10 months ago
    Why?
    Why should I care?

    I care about my blood and my oxygen. You have to convince me to care about yours. :)

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  • Richard Reeve · 10 months ago
    Five why's and we have a root cause analysis Liz. In that it's social, it's societal. For me the analogy to the body see's society as a macro body. Certainly you will need to care to digest any of the specific information, but I'm not sure the desire for influence is the same as building readership. Building influence does break down to each individual reader. While I may be blowing smoke here...for me the desire to gain reach has not only the individuals but has circulation on a societal level as a motivation.
    Thanks for the challenge.
  • Matt Searles · 10 months ago
    Perhaps sex is sublimated religion?

    I don't think influence is primarily what I'm after. I want to do something great, and have success on in proportion to the merits of whatever the thing I did that was great was. So influence is really more of an unplanned consequence.

    I suppose, when talking about SoMe, we are having a conversation.. and influence is a part of conversation.. it's like.. well the alienation of post modern whatever.. where we feel impotent to influence the world around us.. we are no longer an important part about making the sun rise.. and so there's that to.. but, on that level, I'm interested in a lot of influence.. its more like just participating in the unfolding of our times...
  • Richard Reeve · 10 months ago
    Hey Matt...I thought religion was sublimated sex?...
  • Matt Searles · 10 months ago
    Hey richard

    LOL, well if you're a Freudian I'm sure it is... I think Jung suggested that sex might be sublimated religion.. somewhere.. and at the very least it's an interesting way to think of it. Or.. I've been chewing on it for the past few days anyway.

    Well.. Labido as life energy that could be express in a power or sex drive?
  • Richard Reeve · 10 months ago
    Well Matt, my sense of jung in the symbols of transformation is that it moves from instinct to symbol...not the other way around. I agree that the drives of libido are not all sex, and I also think that sex can be a numinous encounter. The idea that the process has moved from religion to sex still has me scratching my chin. (unless any given individual makes sex their religion...)