[ExI] but i really DO know kung fu... it's an illusion of course, but still...

Tue Mar 29 02:50:11 UTC 2022

…> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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>…The illusion can be doggedly persistent - the part of your brain that believes whether or not you know a thing insists that the knowledge is there, coming up with all manner of justifications as to why the knowledge can't be used right now in the particular way you happen to be trying to use it at this instant, or that the inability is unimportant and can be ignored - but it remains an illusion…

I think so too Adrian.  That time I was the driver for four stoners at the Led Zeppelin concert, those guys were making the dumbest replies and thinking they were the funniest comments ever.  For instance, after the riot started and I realized were trapped inside that stadium, I quickly went thru the stages of grief, made it to acceptance.  I said “This is it.  I’m going to die.  Right here, tonight.  Oh the shame, the sheer ignominy.”  One of the stoners replied in slo-mo, like a 45 on 33 (apologies young people among us) with: Reelaaaaax Gertruuuuude.   You’re not going to diiiiiiieeeee…”  They thought that was the funniest joke they ever heard.  I didn’t get it.

>From my point of view, I thought I was witnessing people getting killed.  Turns out no one perished but I couldn’t tell that at the time.

>…By analogy, someone under the influence might think, and declare, that they suddenly know kung fu…

But we older cats really do, Adrian:

https://youtu.be/bmfudW7rbG0

Aside for 70s history fans: Carl Douglas made this video specifically as an early example of music video in 1974, predating Michael Jackson’s Thriller by nearly a decade.  I experienced brain damage without chemicals: to this day I know every word of Kung Fu Fighting, and even remember the dance.  Perfectly useful brain cells are occupied by that silliness.  Actual information was never able to dislodge it from those memory locations.  We had fun.

Even before that was this:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_(1972_TV_series)

If one had the right mindset, it was actually a good show.

Aside: I attempted to watch an episode of Kung Fu recently and discovered a problem that applies to every film made before Star Wars: the pace is waaaay too slow, way the hell too slow.  The internet has trained us to take in information much faster.  So… we now can scarcely stay awake in action movies made before Star Wars, which set a new standard and established the frenetic pace in modern film.

Adrian I agree with your point on illusion and thanks for a pleasant reminder on Kung Fu.

spike

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