The French Touch II

They call it a park, I call it a cage.
Makes for some interesting misunderstandings ;-)

Imposter Syndrome

"While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass."

The great modern thinker who said that once described himself as such:

"You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy."

He also said, in no particular order:

• "You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
• "The noblest search is the search for excellence."
• "Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."
• "Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath."
• "I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women."
• "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it."

As well as

• "There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility."
• "We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

So, who will you cast your vote to in the upcoming European elections?

Dreamcast

I suffer from accute geolocalized dreaming.
It took me some time to get it, but now I know for sure: I have favourite characters and story lines that I dream of only when I am sleeping in some specific places.
Weird ;-)

Expressing Intent: The French Touch

Sometimes, interacting with native French speakers may become somewhat challenging for the vectorial psychology practitioner. As we already know, vectorial psychology practical foundation lays in well known intents that are efficiently communicated. And as much as we would like to believe that being human transcends cultural boundaries, and as much as we would like vectorial psychology to be equally suited to kick any human ass with gusto, enthusiasm and effectiveness sometimes, just sometimes, we are faced with the fact that some people brain wiring does not really seem to match with what we have always considered to be human. There, being humane and considering these poor souls linguistic plight may be helpful.
You see, when I say that I will act in some manner in the future, what I am saying is that I am both willing and intent on doing that. For us, future tense carries with it intent and disposition. We are using the magic word: will. Simple, efficient and quite logical when you look at it. Well, not so in French. Except by using some periphrase like "J'ai l'intention d'agir", there is no guarantee that the person telling you "J'agirai" is indeed willing to act... Well, it carries a subtler text, where "Avoir l'intention de" means being just possibly willing but not being really intent.
Still, the point here is that the future French is more often than not closer to the English conditional, because while as in English it allows for external circumstances to affect the action outcome, it does not carry with it the speaker's expression of its intent and will.

Day 11

• Absurdistan

30 minutes late, the Easter holidays are definitely over. Anyway being late was definitely a shame, as this movie perfectly illustrates vectorial psychology in (in)action.
Far away is Absurdistan, a village with no water. Everyone would like this issue to be solved, but is too busy to tackle it: the men are drinking and the women complaining about rampant alcoholism. They go on a sex strike, hoping for some changes. Let's just say that the
village sheep have it real bad from then on.
A romantic comedy about intentions & motivations. Nice and dandy.

• Let the right One in

A two hours long Swedish vampire flick. The gimmick here is that the protagonists are 12.

• Passengers

An hour late.
Good music.
I see dead people. And a dumb scenarist...

• Trailer Park of Terror

A few good (sick;-) ideas. Adequate Z.

Day 9

• Rage

A murder story presented as a vlog about a fashion show. A few good character vignettes, even though most of them are caricatures really.Interesting form.
While the form is interesting and the plot somewhat funny, it is nonetheless incredibly boring.

emotionally undone

And I do not know why.
Still, I have a guess ;-)
Time to move on boy.

Let's face it: this situation is of your own doing, its conclusion is what you hoped for, and everyone is agreeing with you on that one. Still, you cannot escape the feeling that things could have been better, and you wish for a second chance. And, at the same time, you know that it would be a bad idea, because this is not what you want to do, just what you believe is expected of you, and that even though it looks good on paper, you do not want to be stuck with the end result. You would like to go through the moves because you like it, but you will not want what you will be building.
Solution: otherness.