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Phoebe Jaspe
this is my art. views. film. photography. mbti & psychology rants, surrealism, everything.

Common man syndrome 

SargeMaximus: True that, how do you walk the fine line between making the message you have inside, and make it understandable by the ‘common man’ though? Obviously it has to be universal, but aren’t there enough universal themes of “experience life” anyhow? I know that I personally like personal art, but only if it speaks to me, you know? Makes me wonder if art is doomed to always appeal to the masses.

Reply:
The common man is already doomed from the start because he chose to be ‘common’. It is these years that people repress their inner desires that they suffer the ‘common man’ syndrome in which there is no way turning back.

I suppose it’s fun to create films exploiting ‘the common man’ with their monoculture, they obey and they suffer. Everyone influences everyone. It is a mental illness that these ‘common man’ referred to MBTi as the ESXX, they belong ultimately to the masses. As Aldous Huxley says:

[QUOTE]In Freudian psychology, talking things out is one of the ways we resolve our problems. By talking to a shrink, or getting together with one of our buddies and pounding back some pints and letting everything out is a form of therapy. In philosophy, this has always been one of the ways in which we attempt to answer the pressing questions. From the Socratic dialogues to the daily musings of a philosophy class, we get have always got together so that the unreflected things become reflected.In the postmodern, mass-telecommunication culture, the goal is the opposite. All our individual thoughts and parts are to become the general property of the masses.

The internet in it’s many permutations (with most recent Facebook as the most obvious and significant example) is most guilty of accomplishing this. Think about the Freudian idea of digging into our deepest, darkest and most private and unpleasant past memories in order to analyze and solve a problem we have - to help us know ourselves. Modern communication takes these memories from that clear area of self-examination and throws them across the city for all to see. We have lost our privacy - we are a culture of needing to know, but for all the wrong reasons…We’re voyeuristic, not looking for answers to life’s eternal questions.

So, we’ve gone from an introspective culture of examining and learning from traditions, to one which aims to forget the past by overloading us with information and distorting what is right and wrong. It’s the goal of mass culture to bury the transgressions of the past. The parts that we can understand and reflect on are so small - the trillions of tons of paper and websites out there - most of them have no meaning to everyone….the goal of mass culture is to make sure the narratives of our lives fit somewhere in those documents….

We’ve become so monocultural - through television, internet and other forms of media, that are our memories even our memories? The late philosophy professor, Rick Roderick gives some interesting examples; just like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall, who goes to a company that sells him memories, so have we been indoctrinated with ideas, thoughts, and experiences just by going about our daily lives. It’s like sitting in a cafe and hearing a cover of a Doors song that we lost our virginity to done as muzak — taking very personal memories and diluting them, distorting them and distributing them to the masses……Now we don’t even listen anymore….we tune out.

So what is culture anymore? It used to be things we created as opposed to nature….well now, it’s everything and it’s everywhere. With virtual reality, with world theme parks, with communication online, youtube, etc….we don’t even have to leave our homes to experience the world. 
Thinking this way really makes me want to go back and live in the 1930s. To have modern technology and the ability to travel the world with ease - but without the world spoiled by the hyper information age. I want to find those parts of the world still unexplored, and not posted all over my Facebook news feed.[/QUOTE]



Similar to Freud’s iceberg theory, which one do you wish to exploit? Mainstream media mainly operate on the conscious level, if you see Haneke (INTP) films, he operates on the unconscious level.

Film making is quite sad if you think about it this way, the world is already too messed up to an extent we need to capture its violence and obscenity for people to see, it’s truly an art form if you think about it this way. 

I think I’ll just make films about things I want to make and see what people get from it, and possibly learn from them, in turn, I learn more things about myself.

What if money were no object by Alan Watts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L_cGjQSR80

Film as an art form 

• INFJ: So are you rethinking starring in your own film then?
• ENFP (Me): Oh, I have a recurring idea that must be filmed in the future and I'll contribute in it. The cast of the film will be to gather a group of people that have loads of tattoos on their bodies, together, their costumes would be rainbow warrior outfits with war paint that have their bodies exposed, half naked, in tribal outfits and possibly take shrooms and their aim is to explore the forest and create rituals and fires. This will all be filmed dramatically, it has no aim or purpose, the message would be 'just experience life as it is'.
• INFJ: Well now that you've given the message away, there's no point in watching the movie. Question tho: doesn't sitting and watching a movie keep one from experiencing life as it is?
• ENFP: I think giving the message starts the viewer off with a doorway to what I am trying to convey, ideas are endless existing in its void, what matters is if you decide to pick it up and externalise it through art. Of course, I'm a life experiencer myself but you'd be surprise that the world is full of non-adventurers and people who prefer to stay in their comfort zones. I think I'd like to inspire people to come out of their shells and be more imaginative & creative. This would not happen unless the viewers are dreamers in the first place.
•  We are dreamers and there is always a point to watch other people's ideas through film.

ENFP INTP thoughts: MBTI and Socionics 

• ENFP (Phoebe Jaspe): Haha yea it sounded strange, I guess it's what teenage girls are like. Tbh I still feel really young but old at the same time. It's a weird feeling.
• INTP (Keith): I know the feeling.... I still like to go adn party and get high but i can also beat most 'adults' in a logical argument about pretty much anything. Part of it might come from knowledge of different cultures, people who have only lived in 1 country/culture tend to be simpler creatures I think.
• ENFP: Yeah that's so true. People who never left their own country tend to be more closed-minded. As they say, never trust yourself when you are 30. Everyone's a genius until they reach the age of 10. Kids tend to have a more open mind while their personality develops and chooses the specific cognitive functions they prefer to think in, the pathways usually solidifies as you get older. Scary thought but there are ways you could expand your mind, by traveling and soaking up knowledge and everything like a sponge. Strangely enough, majority of the world prefers to stay in their comfort zones and shuns intellectual pursuits. What I like about Mbti/socionics/neurology is that you could see how people prefer to think. Like the intp mind would be considered to have the ability to think the most openly according to your cognitive functions. Ti and Ne as your main & secondary.
•  With me, my Ne is the function that enables me to think widely as well... But I utilise this with Fi... I'm a more feeling type of person though but I appreciate logic.

Psychonauts & MBTI 

I’m an ENFp. One of the reasons why I think INFJ/INTJ & ENFP/ENTPs deserve the title of ‘The psychonaut’ is because our dominant cognitive functions are Introverted Intuition (Ni for INXJs) and Extraverted Intuition (Ne for ENxPs). It is the only two functions that seek patterns across the universe. We see things as a cosmic whole and everything esoteric.

Coinsidently enough, Extraverted iNtuition (Ne) and Introverted iNtuition (Ni) are represented as black/white triangles in socionics.

ENFP: IEE

The Black & white triangles from above represents Ne/Ni in the Jungian cognitive functions. More so, MBTI types with their auxilliary functions of Ne and Ni, could be INTP, INFP, INFJ, ENTJ, ENFJ. (The secondary psychonauts)

So if you have Ne or Ni as a dominant function, there’s a high possible chance you would be into Psychonautics. Exploration of the mind and from within and without. E.g: Aleister Crowley is an ENTP and Aldous Huxley is an ENFP.

I know MBTI & socionics are different but similar… but I’m just combining the theories, juggling them around to see if I find something.

Conclusion:

MBTI: The Dominant Psychonauts are ENxPs and INxJs.

Socionics: The Dominant Psychonauts are ENxPs and INxPs.

Long live the psychonauts.

Thought Process

by Chase Kunz

25 Thought Provoking Questions: ENFP answers 

1. What is it like to wake up every morning and pretend that you aren’t dying?
Lol. I’d like to think I’m alive and they’re inventing chips that regenerate dead cells that old people have. Hopefully in my lifetime, I wouldn’t want a chip inside my brain if it’s not genuine though, won’t want to end up as a slave.

2. Do you believe in the death penalty? What if someone murdered your mother in cold blood? What if someone murdered a stranger’s mother, but saved your life the month before?
Well, my mother is a lovely lady and people won’t murder her… she’s too much of a coward to find herself in danger anyway.
Well the stranger’s mother is not really my problem, but it’s up to the stranger’s decision to give a death penalty to that murderer…
It’s not my responsibility for other people’s consequences… Plus, what does he/she expect me to do? Hmm, this is confusing. He saved my life but he killed someone’s mother… wtf?

3. If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend?
I’d probably get pretty annoyed and tell him/her to stop because they’re cramping up my style. I’ll possibly suggest some people they could imitate and diverge them into other influences. Maybe allow them approximately one month to change their ways. If they don’t, I might flee.

4. Would you rather be rich and paralyzed from the waist down or poor and able bodied?
Poor and able bodied. I could always work myself up again.

5. What’s the most expensive gift you have ever received? Is it the best gift you have ever received?
1) A Louis Vuitton bag special edition: Monogram Rose Neverfull, Louis Vuitton
2) A Bvagari bracelet that I got for Xmas 2010 and lost it on new years… T__T

Hmm… I guess I really loved that bracelet! D: But the best gift was dinner on a rooftop on valentines day. So dreamy. (:

6. When was the last time you lied? Is it possible to lie without saying anything at all?
I don’t remember but I rarely lie. And yes.

7. Stealing is immoral, right? But what if stealing was the only way to feed a starving child?
It’s still wrong… But I stole loads of little things when I was younger, I have to admit. Just for the adrenaline. Like these pair of pink dice that was in this broken monopoly box about a few months back, my INTx SO was really angry and demanded me to put it back. That was kinda funny but… no one is ever going to buy the game anyway.

8. If I gave you $20, what percentage would you – really – save? If I gave you $200,000, what percentage would you save? Should there be a difference?
I’d save 50%. Hmmm… Probably 60-70% for the 200k.

9. If someone could tell you the exact day and time that you are going to die, would you want them to tell you?
Maybe, if they wanted to. Or that I could prevent it from happening! :D

10. If you found out you were going to die today, would you have any regrets? Would you be happy with the way you spent the last 24 hours of your life?
No regrets. Live life like a flying eagle with no mercy. I would really love to see the apocalypse … If things are meant to happen, then I accept this pre-determined life.

11. What’s your single greatest moment of personal failure? Looking back on it now, did it make you weaker or stronger? What did you learn?
I guess when I was younger, I was obsessed with my looks because people thought I was somewhat unnattractive. This was when I was 11-12… well, everyone looked ugly then but I was super vain and narcissistic. I’ve just learned over the years that I need to let myself go, but I still like to impress myself with how I look.
Like when I was 8, my mum cut my hair too short and I threw a tantrum and cried, and threatened to strangle myself… >.> Poor mother.

12. Do the words ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ mean not being persecuted or discriminated against, or do they mean doing whatever you please?
It means both. And freedom is a self-searching type of ideology that comes from within, if you could express this freedom outwardly towards people, you are truly free.
Creativity is the path towards freedom.

13. Have you ever discriminated against someone? Imagine that a street gang notorious for wearing purple shirts has robbed and murdered several hundred people in your town. If a man wearing a purple shirt just rang your doorbell, would you answer it?
Hmm… I doubt I have without reasons. It’s not discrimination, it’s an observation.
Also, I’d put the latch on just in case. Have some sort of self-defense weapon near me incase he saws off the latch.

14. Is it crazier to choose to be poor or to spend 40 years of your life hating 40 hours a week?
What’s with these questions being poor? Is being poor the worst thing you could be in this life? WTF is wrong with you?

15. Do you ever feel like you don’t have enough time? How many hours a week do you spend watching TV, or playing video games, or…?
I waste atleast 2 hours playing this online game called League of legends. About 3 hours at my work playing Backyard Monsters on facebook…
Another 3-5 hours possibly watching youtube videos along with artsy films.
No, I have too much time, I need to move to London right NOW!
“Good things come to those who wait.” I highly doubt it. I’d be a pile of stardust if I waited for this BS life to give me something.

16. Do you ever celebrate the green lights?
Appreciating nature? Sometimes, I like to look at trees and birds when I walk to my office. Grass is super green, brings comfort to my eyes.

17. If you could be given another talent or ability, what would you want it to be? Have you ever – really – tried to perfect this ability in yourself?
I’d want to be able to do martial arts, kick boxing and beat people up. Lol, no… but I think it’d be cool to fight crime though.

18. No matter how bad things get, are you aware that someone always has it worse than you do?
Yes, I am fully aware, but I am not them… I wish I could be an empath and sense everyone as one. Unfortunately, these mind connections are not strong enough sometimes. I’d feel their pain, but I cannot fully grasp their misfortunes as powerful as I feel about my own. So my misfortunes outweighs most people’s because I am not them, fully atleast.


19. When you help someone, do you ever think, “What’s in it for me?”
Lol… yeah, but I’d still help them if they deserve it.

20. Joy is found with simple awareness. What does your joy look like today?
The fact that I never comb my hair and go out, it always looks so fluffy and bouncy in the morning. So refreshing that I wasn’t born with wire hair. Good genes.

21. What’s the difference between ‘living’ and ‘existing?’
Living is easier with eyes closed. Existing only happens when another human sees you… or something that could validate my existence.

22. Are you willing to sacrifice the life of your child or lover to support a war?
No. I’m a lover, not a warlord.

23. Do you ask enough questions, or do you settle for what you know?
I ask questions everyday. If no one can answer it, I do research until I’m satisfied. It’s part of my OCD…

24. If you could do it all over again, would you change anything?
Too much hassle to. @__@

25. If your life was a novel, what would be the title and how would your story end?
Insanity, voyage, discoveries and adventures
The titanic Phoebe drowns the world with her flowers and crystal ships.

The story that never ends.

INTx & ENFP conversation 

• INTx BabyBearcakes: I'm like a bathroom stall door and you're like a venetian door
• ENFP Me: I'm like a dandelion and you're the magical forest mountain tree people.
• INTx Baby Bearcakes: I'm like an oreo and you're like a banquet with dancers and a magician
• Me: I'm a triangle and you're a violin. i'm a rock, you're the ocean.
• INTx Baby Bearcakes: I'm a violin and you're an ochestra
• ENFP Me: I'm a star, you're the whole universe. I'm a chicken burger, you're a salmon salad.
• INTx Baby Bearcakes: I'm stick and you're a forest
• ENFP Me: I'm a mouse, you are the whole internet.
• INTx Baby Bearcakes: I'm evelynn and you're Ahri
• ENFP Me: I'm a kilobyte, you're a yottabyte.
• INTx Baby Bearcakes: I'm a thread and you're a coat
• ENFP Me: I'm a page, you're a library.
• INTx Baby Bearcakes: you're the best
• ENFP Me: you're better than the best.
• INTx Baby Bearcakes: you're the definition of better and best. Best means phoebe, you are the best, the greatest, the cutest and the coolest
• ENFP Me: You're the cutest.
• INTx Baby Bearcakes: Babycats break the scale of cuteness and create their own realm, its unmeasurable, cuteness is infinite, adorableness too.
• ENFP Me: If i'm the cutest in this world, you're the cutest in the infinity worlds, in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th dimension as well.
• INTx Baby Bearcakes: babycats transcend dimensional laws, everything is one and you are the cutest in that one macrodimension.
• ENFP Me: You are cute and adorable in every breadth, width, lenght, height. When you are measured any time, forwards and backwards; in every moment, you still remain static, as in the cutest of all existent/non-existent things. It's like a constant trophy that remains just for you, like the nominee awards but you get one in each mili-human second that is on going, plus the time backwards. It just shoots at you and you give off this victorious cute vibe.
• INTx Baby Bearcakes: You embody what adorable means. You can stop bullets, freeze fire and burn water with your smile. You make music visible and colour auditory. Your laugh makes trees grow and ice flow. Nothing is cuter than you in any plane of existence and nothing ever will be.
• ENFP Me: That's so cute, I love it. Aww. <3
• INTx Baby Bearcakes: I love you
• ENFP Me: I love you too.

I’m an ENFP. I know this is kind of weird but since it’s 2012 and all, I want to show you all my past exs/current significant other. I will apply MBTI to each person.

The last one is obviously me because that’s the amount of people I’ve had proper relationships with. (8)

From 2006-present:

1) Sergei from Russia (ESFJ- The Caregiver)

2) Casey from San Diego, CA. (ESFP- The Performer)

3) Jhan from Bulgaria (IxTP- The Mechanic/Thinker)

4) Josh from U.K, Huddersfield (ESTJ- The Guardian)

5) Leon from Germany, Frankfurt (ENFJ- The Mentor)

6) Luke from New zealand (ISFx- The Nurturer/ The Artist)

7) Chris from Scotland (ENFP- The Inspirer/ Champion)

8) Dan from Wales/Liverpool (INTP/INTJ - The Thinker/ Scientist) (S.O)

It’s not necessarily I had physical sexual connections with all the people above, but platonic love that I would always remember as they have a place in my heart. Some more than others, but yeah. Sorry for being strange but I’m bored, waiting for my girlfriend to pick me up. This post is just an overview for future reference, in case I forget. I’m a serial monogamist though. :3 

an enxp thoughts: these strands of hair are actually plants. 

Approx. 7:30am 4th January 2012, Abu Dhabi, staining the kosmos

Walking down the sunlight street, I was with a human, he was next to me. Staring closely, examining his ragged beard, I’ve came to a realisation that it was burnt sienna, toasted chestnut, lavendar copper amber dust laced with a crimson tint. This hazel cinnamon pulchritude imprisoned my eyes. His beard hair, alas, this matter is some sort of herb, intense vine.

If I had the thews of Anakim, I could compress his hair with such force that these hairs would turn into petals, coagulate, connecting these atoms together, it would feel like velvet. Scarlet buds, amber roses, much like Potpourri. 

Hair= flowers. That’s some science for you.

Potpurri is definitely a bowl of hair when it is incognito.

I wrote my feelings down for a significant other (aka jellyfish bear). ENFP feelings for an INTx? Not really sure. :3

Intuitive for life, hard hitting on the psyche.

INTx and ENFPs: The Magnetic Pull 

“I’m in dubio about this. I love INTX in general. But with INTJs I tend to have this smooth, deeper understanding, where you need only half a word to get one another which leads to a deeper appreciation, mutual respect and level of trust that’s unbeatable, whereas with INTPs I tend to have a reactive, volatile but passionate exchange, riddled with explanations and verbal banter that yields incredible insights and eventually leads to a very intense bond. It’s..intoxicating. Both of them are in fact. I don’t wanna choose. Can I keep both?”

I think she just defined every word that I was going to tell my INTP S.O. today. Well, INTPs tend to be hardcore thinkers and reject ‘feelings’. So there’s always that death/sorrowful/melancholic rage look about them. I think it’s adorable. They’re really noble people and never lie. They are super tactless.

That vibe evokes a sense of goodness, innocence and purity towards me… it’s comforting. Normal people like SJs/SPs would think this ‘vibe’ is psychotic or somewhat threatening.

Bring bring thunder, and loud loud rain. Lead our woes asunder, Neath our proud proud veins. I’m not sure what’s happening with my life right now but positive feelings to another ending of a year. (: happy content times <3 shit has been happening, I know I’m a ‘reporter/inspirer’ type but I’ll post a story soon, I’m just tired and on my phone. Gahh a friend wants to meet at this strange cafe. Not sure if i’m bothered. Meep, gonna ear some udong noodles. P.S: Loving the purple haze image of nothing. I didn’t even use the hipstamatic app. for a long time. I hate it when people update my status on facebook, I don’t even update it myself =.= and I hate it when people refer to Memes in real life. It shows the lack of originality, a Thinker agrees with me on this. How mundane. Weepy sighs.

My Neurotic thoughts: Self-repairing & understanding 

I’m going to be one of those people that bitch about their lives on a blog. It is said that if shit didn’t happen, there wouldn’t be poets. Plus, I had four hours of sleep and had to wake up at 9am for this bullshit. I’ll embrace this ‘fuckery’.

So yeah the negative points of staying in AD:

- I can’t go to England midnight tonight. Because there were last minute problems with my visa, with the bank statements. I have to wait another month in this shit country and a ‘new start’ was what I needed. There goes my business class flight and limosine. What a waste. =(

- I miss Fresher’s week. Also, probably one month of my course. 

- Will be the ‘new kid’ when everyone will be settled in by then. (Well in a sense that I’ve missed something, I hate missing things)

- Just in a shitty low morale mood. 

- The fact that I miss a month off my course would suck, I want to feel this creative accomplishment again. :( Need to get back on track, not falling into the abyss of relentless monomania.

- Can’t meet the people I made plans with. Can’t go to cheap nightclubs and get smashed.

- I really cannot tolerate my unemotional parents right now, they keep arguing and I can’t be fucked staying in this household.

Since I am an ENFP type 7w6/3w4 in the enneagram theory, I may become a person with an unhealthy personality for a short period of time:

unbalanced and unhealthy states

irresponsible debauchery
manic hysteria
burnt-out debilitation

When 7/6 stresses, the search for ever-increasing levels of excitement and stimulation seems at first like a way out of the apparent trap of boredom and unease, but it brings only temporary relief. Maybe another kind of fun will help me avoid this increasing sense of hopeless ambivalence. Maybe I should start a new company, or have a great big party! Unbalanced 7/6 tries to find the answer in increasingly grand plans for great, exciting events.

But the ever-growing fear and boredom keep coming back, as excessive stimulation approaches dangerous levels. Without increasing awakeness, this course of exciting overload leads to extreme exhaustion, and a kind of despairing depression that totally incapacitates. At the bottom of the scale of health, 7/6 becomes a worn-out husk, utterly debilitated by drugs, sexual excess, and general overstimulation, and totally incapable of self-care. At every opportunity, every means available is used to provide some escape. Without some kind of external help, such a person may ultimately die of excess.

That kind of explained it, wow. Except the sexual excess part. I just need to get out of this country immediately. It’s just not the vibe I need right now. Plus, I’m not going to commit mass-murder-suicide. But ‘self-damaging’ was in my mind when I was in the car on the way home from the visa agency.

Self damaging would include: excess smoking, drinking, and recreational ‘drugs’. I do this anyway but in a more massive amount because of this fuckery. I can’t take the external world right now, it’s being too violent. I’m ‘totally incapable of self-care’ anymore.

The 3w4 description:

Threes at their WORST are:
Self-centered

• Pretentious
• Vain
• Superficial
• Vindictive
• Overly competitive
• Deceptive
• Defensive
• Opportunistic 

unbalanced and unhealthy states

Unbalanced 3/4 hides loss of self-worth behind a veneer of artificial coolness. If the success-orientation of the three becomes too compulsive, and the fourish introspection gets out of hand, 3/4s lose their genuineness. They become less socially adept, and somewhat manipulative, as their fourish self-dislike leads to a twoish desire to reinforce self-image by “helping” others. The self-deceptive pride that results is hidden behind emotional deadening as three pulls in the worst of nine. Such people can be difficult to like, because of the way they constantly remind themselves and others of their own accomplishments.

In the worst case, 3/4 is capable of atrocities, just like 3/2, except that because of the greater self-examination of the four-wing, such crimes are more likely to be isolated cases. 3/4 can be rather self-destructive as all the normal rules of social conduct are abandoned in an attempt to generate attention of any kind from others. In the deepest psychosis, mass-murder-suicides are possible. 

Some truth in that as well, psychology definitely made me feel better.

Plus the positive points staying in AD would be:

- I get to slack off everything, tan and relax under the sun, stay in my jacuzzi on the 5th floor. Going to the gym as well which is on the 5th floor as well. But I hate not doing anything creative to be honest.

- See my best friend and some friends. Also, a guy I just met 2 weeks ago, guess I could spend more time with him.

- Going to shit drinking parties and be super pretentious.

- Have a photoshoot with Angie as we failed to do so for her portfolio… lookbook style.

- I might be able to attend the Middle East Film Festival in October 2011 at the emirates palace abu dhabi and meet various film directors/producers while getting free food, roses and champagne and be all classy and avant-garde.

- Have more dinners with my parents in hotels, I love gourmet food. <3

- I would have the time to get my shirt back from a friend… 

I’m guessing the positive points weighs out the negative.

Overall, I was just so convinced and excited for Sheffield Hallam University but shit happens. My rant is over, now I feel better than before. =( So sad… I had loads of people to meet as well. Shame. 

P.S: Carl Sagan and his cosmos definitely makes me feel better.

Objectivism (Some revision) 

Also, I find objectivity strange…

“Objectivism, in this context, is an alternative name for philosophical realism, the view that there is a reality, or ontological realm of objects and facts, that exists independent of the mind.”

Reality only exists independent of the mind? Full of objects and facts that reinforces reality? Therefore, we can construct our own ‘hyper reality’ that is not ‘reality’ but a constructed one. De fleur stated a mediated world represents social value, not social reality. According to Stanislavsky’s theory of Naturalism, in films that contain ‘naturalism’, it’s about ‘getting it right’ and being true to life. An oppositional view of this is Naturalism appears to be transparent, almost formless. It only tells the truths as far as it can and as far as it wants to. Its original motivation for showing things is not aesthetic it is social and political.
We are voluntary ‘individuals’ of those incorporated mental structures that deprive us of more deliberate consumption.

A Conversation with an INTJ (Inbox)  

The ENFP is me, the INFJ is this guy from Belgium. For you creepy lurkers out there who would like to read private conversations about life.

INTJ: Because of the size of your reply, I’m going to quote small pieces so it’s clear what part of your reply I’m referring to.

ENFP: Haha. I feel that I cannot tell you everything in words, it would be easier if we were both sitting in a cafe and would probably talk for days…

INTJ: I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t last as long when sitting in a cafe. Language is only a tool, it has its limitations, indeed some things aren’t able to be told in words.

ENFP: Anyways, it’s similar how you want to get away from the family, that’s the same with me as I don’t really tell my parents anything and they never helped me emotionally, 
they provided me with basic needs and education and all that but I never tell them what I do with my friends and etc, because they shouldn’t know. Also, it’s probably because your parents didn’t offer what you needed the most when you were young? I’m not sure >.> this notion is similar to mine in a sense.

INTJ: Looks like there is indeed some similarties here, I don’t tell them, anything either. They provided me with food, shelter and education though. I guess that that is all you need is what people would think. They’re wrong, there is a lot missing. Anyway enough on that.

ENFP: It’s probably because my father is an ENTJ and my mom is ISTJ. Open-minded/close-minded, so i don’t know, I love them though but I’d rather move out which is what I’m doing in a few months. :D Off to england!

INTJ: England is nice, but living alone / on your own blows every other experience out of the way, at least in the beginning. How are you going to live alone and study? Parents are funding you? If so, then it’s not quite the same yet, as you lack the feeling of being completely independant from anyone.

ENFP:I’m ALWAYS an impulsive person

INTJ: I’m tempted to say that that isn’t always a good thing, but then again, I’m not so sure of it, being the opposite myself I would assume that “my way” is the “best way” to do it. But if someone is happy with their impulsive decisions, than what could there possibly be wrong with? Both impulsive and *the opposite(thoughtful?)* decisions/acts can be regretted in the future. One would think that not being impulsive would lead to better decisions, but that’s just an illussion ( except in a few (mostly financial) cases ) Life is largely out of your control. Too many factors you have absolutely no effect on or control over whatsoever. I could go on about this a lot further but it would drift off to far.

Must have been quite an adventure in the UK, depending on well you knew each other on myspace before you knocked on his dour it’d be less/more daring. But with some brains, you can make these kind of things relatively safe. And looks like you enjoyed yourself a lot, so you made a good call there.

ENFP: I mostly feel at ease in a nightclub amongst many strangers and colourful lights. You just disappear and no one notices you, at the same time I’m in an atmosphere that I admire.

INTJ: How would you describe that atmosphere?

ENFP: I went with my college and the walk and camping trip is the most fcked up thing I’ve done in my life. Everyone fought/some cried/ blisters/cuts/mosquito bites and ect. but gahhh it was such a pain. Rain started pouring in our tents and we had to walk like 30km through sugarcane fields and hills… we had to scoop out the water with our pans and cups. It was disastrous.

INTJ: Wuss : p

ENFP: Well, I prefer to be with people, I’d like my alone time but I would literally get insane if I had to spend too much time alone.

INTJ: What would be going through you mind when you’re going insane like that?

ENFP:So where did you go on your adventurous trip?

INTJ: Italy, Sardinia, Cagliari. Walked my feet off (almost literally) As I was so used to go camping/hiking/walking in a group where there were always some “slackers” I naturally had to take breaks to wait for them to catch up. So when I was alone I had none to wait for, and I walked so fast, so long, without any breaks. I went in some sort of trance. Walked non-stop from 7am to 9pm, I didn’t even eat >.< I did however drink while moving. Was a wierd experience really. It’s only when I stopped that night to sleep on the top of a mountain under the naked sky full of stars, that I realized what I’ve just done. Next day, having to walk the same distance back, it got to a point where I could feel the blood in my feet pounding and moving away when I put my feet down. But I ignored it, a little pain didn’t hurt me, I thought it would go away. Next day I was just “broke”. Touching my foot with anything hurted a lot. So I found myself a nice spot and sat there the whole day, I didn’t move a feet. I just stared at the beautiful panorama and was reflecting on life, my life, my future, what I really want, …

ENFP:: Challenges as in, ‘can I get in the VIP film festival after party without anyone noticing?

INTJ: No, I meant personal challenges, things that develop your own character. Do hings to expand your mind, your view, lessen your fears, strenghten your will power, …
You’re talking about materialistic challenges : P

ENFP: I’m getting hang of this single life, I was never single most of youth from 14-18, and I’ve been single for like 5 months now, it feels very weird. I’m starting to get used to it though, it feels better in a sense.

INTJ: So another (much needed?) valuable experience you’re having!

ENFP: 7)I got told to download this game, and I did. I can understand why these games are addictive but yeah. Didn’t hurt to try.

INTJ: Games are addictive to a lot of people, because it’s an easy way of “life”. Guaranteed rewards for your efforts. Can’t say the same about life. Games punish failure a lot less or not at all, they even allow you to do redo everything. Imagine being able to do these things in life. Games make a goal for you, you pursue it, get tasks, get rewarded, and feel happy for that. Life doesn’t have a clear goal. People are clueless what to do with their life. Or never even question it at all. (And take a goal from media/others instead)

ENFP: 8)What about you? What’s your take on relationships? Any disasters/goodtimes?

INTJ: My take on relationships? Not sure what you’re exactly asking me. I had just one relationship, a wierd one, and short as well, just half a year. The only good in the relationship itself for me, was for getting some idea of what it feels like and what it should feel like. But overall it wasn’t good at all. Lived in my own illusion. Very positive about the whole experience though, it gave me a much needed perspective, experience, and framework on relationships and myself.

ENFP: PS: I like that opening mouth mole creature thing. It’s very funny. I find it incredibly amusing.

INTJ: That creature is a hedgehog!