Understanding Creativity and Critical Theory

After the Clancy deep dive I was in a bad mood, and the antidote is always nerding out. So I pulled some books, took notes, and thought out loud about why the things we look at run us more than the things around us.

Jonathan Murphy, PMHNP-BC, on Walter Lippmann's pseudo-environment, why stereotypes are cognitively necessary rather than simply bad, and what any of it has to do with a frontal lobe that isn't fully online.

This episode covers:
▸ Why the screen is the problem for a creator whose work is about mental health
▸ Medium as the thing in between, and why 99.9% of our communication is reception
▸ Lippmann on the feeling aroused by a mental image of an event you never experienced
▸ The amygdala, hippocampus, and adrenal response happening before you can think
▸ Why ADHD makes you a passenger on that ride
▸ The pseudo-environment: behavior responds to it, but acts land in the real world
▸ Where the contradiction develops, and what that looks like with a true crime case
▸ Fiction, fidelity, and why a novel doesn't mislead you but a feed can
▸ Being told about the world before you see it, and what preconception does to perception
▸ The landscape in the parlor: recognizing the sunset because you already saw the painting
▸ Why abandoning all stereotypes would impoverish human life rather than free us
▸ Bertrand Russell's code of science from The Impact of Science on Society
▸ Marcuse on the welfare state as a state of unfreedom
▸ Why the first move when you're anxious is to look at what's been going in

The book The Process: An Adult's Guide to ADHD Medication is available on Amazon: [link]

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For educational purposes only. Not medical advice. Consult your own provider for clinical decisions.