KANE

Q: 

So if you could give Charles Foster Kane advice.... 

What advice would you give him...?”

Trump : 

Get Yourself a DIFFERENT WOMAN.

“ Autism has bedeviled psychiatric classifiers for decades because it is not a single, discrete disease. It’s usually described as a “spectrum” disorder because people can be more or less autistic, and it’s not clear where to draw the line between those who have a serious mental illness and those who are just not very good at reading other people. At the extreme end of the spectrum, autistic people are “mind-blind.”

They are missing the social-cognitive software that the rest of us use to guess the intentions and desires of other people. According to one of the leading autism researchers, Simon Baron-Cohen, there are in fact two spectra, two dimensions on which we can place each person: empathising and systemising. 

Empathising is “the drive to identify another person’s emotions and thoughts, and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion.”

If you prefer fiction to nonfiction, or if you often enjoy conversations about people you don’t know, you are probably above average on empathising. 

Systemizing is “the drive to analyse the variables in a system, to derive the underlying rules that govern the behaviour of the system.”

If you are good at reading maps and instruction manuals, or if you enjoy figuring out how machines work, you are probably above average on systemising.”

- Johnathan Haidt,

The Righteous Mind

“Weisinger was in therapy, and he used the material from his sessions as raw plot ore for his writers to process into story material. The editor’s entire psychology was stretched naked on the dissecting table via some of the most outlandish and unashamed deployments of pure symbolic content that the comics had ever seen. Its like would not be truly viewed again, in fact, until the drug-inspired cosmic comics of the early seventies. 

For example, there was the bottle city of Kandor. Kandor had been the capital city of Superman’s home world Krypton, thought destroyed. Shrunken and preserved by the villain Brainiac, Kandor was now a tiny city in a bell jar. This living diorama, this ant colony of real people, had great appeal for children, adding to the childlike nature of this era’s Superman. In Kandor, lost memories were preserved under glass, and Superman could go there, in private, to experience a world he left behind. Kandor was every snow globe and music box that stood for every bittersweet memory in every movie there would ever be. Kandor was the tinkling voice of a lost world, a past that might have been, unreachable. Kandor was survivor’s guilt endowed with new meaning.”

— SuperGods