How many cans?

You know, I blogged earlier and I liked it. I really miss it. It’s a weird…thing? Experience? Activity? Yeah, sure. It’s not exactily like talking with someone (what with today’s world of email and IM ,you can see the comparision), but it also doesn’t feel completely like I’m making a public service announcement type thing, either. It’s a rant, pure and simple is what it is. Pick a topic and then let your mind follow the trail of that thought until it runs out of time, energy, or vespian gas trail. It’s like thinking, but only like a quarter the work of normal thinking! Plus is a solitary activity (the way I’ve always done it, not nessissairly always true), which is the kinda thing I’m usually up for.

Man, I really love the music in Cave Story.

It’s wierd tho, becaue it combines not talking to anyone in particular, and talking to everyone at once. And since anyone who wants can read it, you get some interesting responses. For me, usually, none at all. Or nothing substatntial, at least… *shrug*

See, in Psyc we learned about this thing called “learned helplessness”. It works kinda like this:

In part one of Seligman and Steve Maier’s experiment, three groups of dogs were placed in harnesses. Group One dogs were simply put in the harnesses for a period of time and later released. Groups Two and Three consisted of “yoked pairs.” A dog in Group 2 would be intentionally subjected to pain by being given electric shocks, which the dog could end by pressing a lever. A Group 3 dog was wired in parallel with a Group 2 dog, receiving shocks of identical intensity and duration, but his lever didn’t stop the electric shocks. To a dog in Group 3, it seemed that the shock ended at random, because it was his paired dog in Group 2 that was causing it to stop. For Group 3 dogs, the shock was apparently “inescapable.” Group 1 and Group 2 dogs quickly recovered from the experience, but Group 3 dogs learned to be helpless, and exhibited symptoms similar to chronic clinical depression.

In part two of the Seligman and Maier experiment, these three groups of dogs were tested in a shuttle-box apparatus, in which the dogs could escape electric shocks by jumping over a low partition. For the most part, the Group 3 dogs, who had previously “learned” that nothing they did had any effect on the shocks, simply lay down passively and whined. Even though they could have easily escaped the shocks, the dogs didn’t try.(Wikipedia)

See, it goes back to what I’ve been saying for a long time (kinda hit the subject in my video blog even!). Because you had some experience that you weren’t in control of, you start thinking that you never have control, and you don’t even try, which means you never realize that you actually do have control. It’s a shame. I feel really bad for those dogs. And I’ve know a number of people who have fallen victm to this. I need to find a fix to it one day…

(I suggest you read the rest of the wiki article. It’s something I find very interesting)

Okay, that’s it for me for now. Sleep needs to come, because college starts earlier then I’d like it too. In a sense, at least high school got me up early so by the time I woke up I was allready moving. Kinda like if you start driving your car in the back of a moving truck.

F*R*A*G: MINE MORE GAS.