The Most Dangerous Thing We've Ever Done on Stage

Now that I'm thinking about this, I can't stop thinking about it. I remembered it because a friend of mine told me a story about when she was once at a hot spring and she went from pool to pool asking everyone if they'd like to participate in 30 seconds of silence and she got everyone on board, but then, 15 seconds after they started, some guy said "THIS IS BORING."

Like, it's very easy to immediately and /only/ examine the person who did the dumb thing. My brain wants to know what the heck is wrong with him! How drunk was he? How selfish!?

But if we assume that that experiment works sometimes, but not every time, we realize that taking a continuum of human decisions and forcing it into a binary, you would always only have one of two outcomes. But humanity doesn't exist in a binary of good or bad and right or wrong. But even when we don't force our experience into a binary (which this experiment did) our brains like to imagine things as binary because it's just cognitively easier. We even have a name for that...binary bias: (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618792256)

Anyway, lots to think about...as always...
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