I was just tonight thinking about the psychological instinct -- or bundle of instincts and processes, a suppose -- that gets us to like people who are quite like us. In sociology this is called homophily and I suspect, based on what I know of you, that you may enjoy learning about it.
But the context I was thinking about tonight was kind of orthogonal to that -- the way that some people fill holes of ours, make us more complete by being unlike us. It is so ... powerful to find someone like that. Feels almost religious. That might be another thing you might enjoy reading about.
Anyway, great post as ever. I'll miss them when they're gone.
I was just tonight thinking about the psychological instinct -- or bundle of instincts and processes, a suppose -- that gets us to like people who are quite like us. In sociology this is called homophily and I suspect, based on what I know of you, that you may enjoy learning about it.
But the context I was thinking about tonight was kind of orthogonal to that -- the way that some people fill holes of ours, make us more complete by being unlike us. It is so ... powerful to find someone like that. Feels almost religious. That might be another thing you might enjoy reading about.
Anyway, great post as ever. I'll miss them when they're gone.