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Monday, June 11, 2007

Be all that you can be

10 comments:

My Frontier Thesis said...: There was a good report on NPR about a week or a week and a half ago (perhaps a bit longer). I'll try to google it later, but the report essentially said that psychologists are having returned veterans strapped into virtual reality equipment to relive their traumatic experiences. If I remember correctly, it had something to do with talking about their trauma rather than suppressing or trying to "forget" about it.

My great uncle didn't talk about his front line medic experiences from WWII for like fifty years. Then one day he just started chatting with me (of all people) about it.

Memory is a very, very interesting subject. I wish I had more time to discuss it, but alas, off to work that pays the bills (for now). More later.; 6/12/2007 10:52 AM
Pepe le Pew said...: kind of like in the clockwork orange?; 6/12/2007 11:38 AM
Tecumseh said...: Mixing apples and oranges again, Pepe? Of course, a pinko-lefty rive-Gauchard would not know the difference between soliders fighting for their country and hoodlums randomly killing people -- what do you expect, Cartesian logic?; 6/12/2007 11:45 AM
Pepe le Pew said...: ai - pay attention before you jump on your high horses. there is a scene in the clockwork orange that is just like mft's "psychologists are having returned veterans strapped into virtual reality equipment to relive their traumatic experiences". this was a comment on the experiment, not a statement that soldiers are thugs.; 6/12/2007 1:50 PM
Tecumseh said...: Maybe so, in which case I will retract my comment -- but you'll pardon my jumping the gun, based on myriad past comments from you, consistently disparaging and denigrating the efforts of our troops, based on a well-known (and predictable) ideological point of view.; 6/12/2007 2:28 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Found the story. Click on this blue link you angry, ideological bastards (said in a civil way).

Excerpt: Using components from the popular game Full Spectrum Warrior, psychologist Skip Rizzo and his colleagues have fashioned a "virtual" world that simulates the sources of combat stress... The idea is to re-introduce the patients to the experiences that triggered the trauma, gradually, until the memory no longer incapacitates them.; 6/12/2007 3:21 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Pepe, I haven't seen Clockwork in quite some time.; 6/12/2007 3:22 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: he's a murderer rapist thug who gets busted & put in jail. He is offered a freedom deal for which they experiment on him, feeding him electroshocks while forcing him to watch rape and murder scenes on a screen. He then develops an allergy to sex & violence (which turns out to be a problem when his past catches up with him).; 6/12/2007 4:04 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: there is a
"darling, you're beautiful today
do you mean i looked ugly yesterday?"
quality to that exchange.; 6/13/2007 2:35 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: I suppose one could interpret it that way too.; 6/14/2007 2:53 PM

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