Metacognition: Thinking about thoughts

(Or: Beliefs I've held about people that I didn't really know I believed, until I tried to write them into a story).

1. Chances are, the future will be neither utopian nor dystopian. ( Read more... )



2. Violence doesn't need to be on an overwhelming scale to cast a wide shadow over society. ( Read more... )



3. Imagination and memory have a greater impact on society than statistics and facts ( Read more... )



4. Small, but significant, blows to the imagination are more likely to change our beliefs about reality than one big cataclysmic event. ( Read more... )



5. Watching someone else go through hard times and/or pain has a bigger impact on our imaginations than going through it ourselves. ( Read more... )



6. We have more in common with people who lived at the height of the witch hunts, psychologically, than we have differences. ( Read more... )