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Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

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Re: Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

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Post by MrJohz »

scaradim wrote: post #26
rhyme-boss wrote: post #14

Just my personal experience, but I would say this does not hold with regard to observing nature. Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, I care more about it, and I enjoy seeing it, and connecting that knowledge with other ecological knowledge.

It's proved that kids that name their chicken, pig, lamb, rabbit, fish, dog or horse cannot accept them to be killed and cannot eat them. thus numbers on farm cattle.

Anecdotally, I am sceptical that this is true (at least universally). My dad grew up with animals, and his family named and are plenty of them.

Re: Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

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Post by vctrnk »

frud wrote: post #21
rhyme-boss wrote: post #14

Just my personal experience, but I would say this does not hold with regard to observing nature. Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, I care more about it, and I enjoy seeing it, and connecting that knowledge with other ecological knowledge.

Nature? Bah! How do you market nature? People can just get it for free! Get with the program, we need to exploit hedonism-seeking for the widest possible range of consumers to keep our numbers up! Keep them lusting after the next big thing, keep them confused and incompetent for as long as possible so they keep buying new versions of it. From us.

You cannot market nature, but you CAN market everything around it: Tourism, clothing/footwear, camping gear, even technology (cameras, GPS etc). All of them to give you the "upper hand" over your peers - And of course, you can buy that from us!

Re: Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

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Post by snordgren »

scaradim wrote: post #26
rhyme-boss wrote: post #14

Just my personal experience, but I would say this does not hold with regard to observing nature. Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, I care more about it, and I enjoy seeing it, and connecting that knowledge with other ecological knowledge.

It's proved that kids that name their chicken, pig, lamb, rabbit, fish, dog or horse cannot accept them to be killed and cannot eat them. thus numbers on farm cattle.

I grew up on a farm and we routinely named the cattle that stood out. I don't recall any one of us protesting when they were sent away. But I suppose cattle aren't very sociable compared to the animals that you listed.

At the end of the day, it's just the cycle of life, and we knew that from an early age.

Re: Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

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Post by harimau777 »

Lariscus wrote: post #4

This might be one of the reasons why some competitive gaming communities seem so joyless after a while.

I suspect that another reason might be that the mechanics of competitive gaming focus on maximizing players' control over whether they win rather than on maximizing joy.

It's like the difference between backyard football and professional football. In backyard football most people play with house rules that make the game more fun but less competitive. On the other hand, in professional football the rules are designed to help ensure that the better team wins.

Re: Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

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Post by dingnuts »

scaradim wrote: post #26
rhyme-boss wrote: post #14

Just my personal experience, but I would say this does not hold with regard to observing nature. Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, I care more about it, and I enjoy seeing it, and connecting that knowledge with other ecological knowledge.

It's proved that kids that name their chicken, pig, lamb, rabbit, fish, dog or horse cannot accept them to be killed and cannot eat them. thus numbers on farm cattle.

This is obvious nonsense to anyone who grew up in a rural area

Re: Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

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Post by alaxsxaq »

scaradim wrote: post #26
rhyme-boss wrote: post #14

Just my personal experience, but I would say this does not hold with regard to observing nature. Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, I care more about it, and I enjoy seeing it, and connecting that knowledge with other ecological knowledge.

It's proved that kids that name their chicken, pig, lamb, rabbit, fish, dog or horse cannot accept them to be killed and cannot eat them. thus numbers on farm cattle.

Once you let your kid name an animal, it is a pet.

I have a bit of experience with this since we have been running a chicken retirement community for the past four or five years as our chickens, now beloved pets of my teenage daughter are well into their senior years. We get eggs, but they are very expensive eggs given the feed cost/egg ratio is changing significantly as egg production wanes and feed prices are on a continuous trajectory upwards.

We do have limits - my daughter has accepted that I draw the line at vet visits. If a chicken is sick enough to need a vet, it will be allowed to die peacefully or be euthanized if there are severe injuries.

Re: Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

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Post by tekla »

scaradim wrote: post #26
rhyme-boss wrote: post #14

Just my personal experience, but I would say this does not hold with regard to observing nature. Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, I care more about it, and I enjoy seeing it, and connecting that knowledge with other ecological knowledge.

It's proved that kids that name their chicken, pig, lamb, rabbit, fish, dog or horse cannot accept them to be killed and cannot eat them. thus numbers on farm cattle.

Complete and total nonsense. I've eaten plenty of family pets that I've named, and so have many of my family members and relatives

Re: Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

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Post by bityard »

scaradim wrote: post #26
rhyme-boss wrote: post #14

Just my personal experience, but I would say this does not hold with regard to observing nature. Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, I care more about it, and I enjoy seeing it, and connecting that knowledge with other ecological knowledge.

It's proved that kids that name their chicken, pig, lamb, rabbit, fish, dog or horse cannot accept them to be killed and cannot eat them. thus numbers on farm cattle.

No, farm cattle have numbers because that's the most efficient way to keep track of them. The farms might be large, and the cattle might change ownership at various stages. It just doesn't work to name them, just like naming computers in a datacenter doesn't scale past a certain point.

And as a counter-example, I know families in the rural midwest that name their livestock while raising them. The important bit is that they teach the children the difference between pets and livestock early on so it doesn't come as a shock to them that their dinner was grazing out on the back 40 just the other day. It's only shocking to those who aren't acquainted with the realities of agriculture life.

Re: Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

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Post by ye-olde-sysrq »

ydnaclementine wrote: post #8
Lariscus wrote: post #4

This might be one of the reasons why some competitive gaming communities seem so joyless after a while.

>win >feel nothing >lose >day ruined

why is "greentext" such an expressive and iconic way of communicating in online text?

win: feel nothing

lose: day ruined

communicates the same idea but feels less emotionally punchy somehow.

Re: Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

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Post by HWR_14 »

frud wrote: post #21
rhyme-boss wrote: post #14

Just my personal experience, but I would say this does not hold with regard to observing nature. Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, I care more about it, and I enjoy seeing it, and connecting that knowledge with other ecological knowledge.

Nature? Bah! How do you market nature? People can just get it for free! Get with the program, we need to exploit hedonism-seeking for the widest possible range of consumers to keep our numbers up! Keep them lusting after the next big thing, keep them confused and incompetent for as long as possible so they keep buying new versions of it. From us.

> How do you market nature? People can just get it for free

If you're Booz Allen, you get the rights to run the reservation system for the US national parks and tack on fees for yourself.

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