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Rewatching Game of Thrones and picking up on all these details I didn’t catch the first time around. Also I watched it on my laptop the first time - lots of nice details to be seen in HD on a TV https://t.co/GUEvcAaRr8
There’s a bunch of interesting nuance in the politicking in the show – the use of plausible deniability, misdirection, tactful omissions, cunning, intrigue, veiled threats. Is there any good list written anywhere describing such interpersonal tactics and maneuvers? 🤔 https://t.co/INtKCZuQ2X
@visakanv Nice! I also want to see a zero to one type of thing about this - how does one go from oblivious, clueless, to clued-in, even participating? Trying to see if I could write it - all my ideas come down to: it's personal, a journey, just start 🤔
@HuanWin I think typically we learn by getting burned and/or from watching a peer do it well https://t.co/sTejYu8JmO
Cluelessness, innocence, naïveté, privilege - these are all words used to describe the condition of having a flawed and/or low-res model of the world. A child who loses their innocence is forced to develop a higher-res model of some harsh and ugly things
@HuanWin reading 48 laws of power at about 20yo was probably my most major 0-to-1 'awakening' moment. "honesty is a blunt instrument that can bloody more than it cuts" https://t.co/PPOXzPB2ya
@HuanWin yup, it suddenly made a lot of disparate experiences make sense on retrospect. watching mean girls was another similar experience https://t.co/OrYxUwBy7L
funny to revisit this and realize that the last season pretty much rendered the whole TV series into garbage on retrospect. Sad. Should probably consider Season 6 to be the final season https://t.co/PLbHHamD9b
Of all of the women in Westeros, she struck me as the one with the most *finesse*. She was not naive, or bitter, or angry, or vengeful, or envious, or petty. She had a pretty good sense of the world, and navigated it with a smile, a kind word, a laugh. Making time to help others https://t.co/Am8Va78Tb8
