My autism gave me super powers, and I want to share my findings.
I don't think we really forget anything, we just choose to not remember, and so we don't remember so we think can bear the present a little better. Desensitizing ourselves to our experiences becomes a habit, and becomes the only way we can feel anything at all.
Maybe you are ecstatic over a recent development and feeling grand, but there is always the nagging feeling at the back of the mind that you are ignoring just out of habit to feel rewarding, and can't really put down. There is always the possibility that nothing was changed, and you were just duped to feel good.
Or maybe you are grumpy, that the world has an obvious thing wrong among an increasing mound of problems. Stuff is getting worse and all you can do is to point out the wrong doing fervently to right the mistakes, but there is this nagging feeling that a similar wrong thing happened before, and you are just reacting in despair all over again.
Why? Well it is because of perception, and it is why I choose this specific scene of Neo (played by Twilight) blinded previously and is still able 'see' and then to make a pact with the machine leader. The symbolization of having your eyes burned out, but become able to perceive further than ever before, is the analogy of when you finally understand how the information we select on a daily basis, through habits and by external forces, mold and shape how we interpret the world.
And most importantly, knowing how things work, you can rest, take a break, take off the cloudy glasses before your eyes if you want, or, more drastically, cauterize them to see with painful clarity, and start picking up the pieces of what there is left to see, and build a better world starting yourself, and then others.
I wonder how many people has seen Maps of Meaning lectures?
And how do I become mod ktxbye.