Thank you, Adora for a very thoughtful, intelligent and well written post. The only part I have a question about is what you meant by this:
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One is the Pleasure Principle, which goes along for the ride and doesn't give a damn about facts, which lives in the sensory moment, which is emotive and doesn't retain a very good long-term memory (something it sounds like you need to cultivate a bit better).
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Are you saying you think I need to cultivate a greater long term memory for such things (like where I learned a fact from) or are you saying I need to develop my ability to just relax and be entertained?
See, the thing is I don't think I have problems enjoying entertainment in a mindless manner, the problem is that it is when I am enjoying entertainment in a mindless manner that I am most susceptible to having facts uncritically take up residence in my head.
I rarely go to movies when they are in the theater and I feel fortunate that this is the case because often films depicting some historical event are so far removed from the actual history that I can read the reviews and know that I shouldn't accept any historical depictions as accurate.
On a seperate, but related matter that is kind of a pet peeve of mine. Why do movie producers feel the need to exercise their creative license to such a degree that true history is falsified in the name of advancing a point of view or better encapsulating some more modern political or philosophical statement? Or why is it that a book has to be "adapted" to the point where the story itself is almost unrecognizable to those who have read the book?
Grrr...