you're always contrasting what you want
to happen with what you think is
happening they're both models and
wherever there's a deviation wherever
what you want to happen isn't going on
then you feel anxiety curiosity as well
you're impelled to explore But anxiety
is the thing that comes up first and the
larger the magnitude of the unexpected
occurrence the greater the amount of
anxiety one of the things we're going to
try to determine in the course is how
you can understand how large a dis
option a given unexpected event is
because you know minor well I think
let's go back to this other diagram for
a
second here's a like here's a way of
looking at it so let's say you're you
know you're going somewhere and you have
three plans to get there and uh this
plan doesn't work so that means it
produces an outcome that isn't what you
envision and this plan doesn't work it
produces a anomalous outcome as well but
this plan does work well that's no
problem I mean those are pretty minorly
disruptions all you do is you keep the
same vision of yourself and the same
vision of the future you just switch
between plans but you're really in
trouble if none of your plans work or if
someone messes around with your
representation of this or
this so you can say for
example um you want to get into medical
school and you need 30 courses to get
into medical school and you should have
A's on all of them and you get a B+ on
one course okay well you still have all
these other courses that's not such a
big deal it's a minor Le disruption it
causes you a certain amount of anxiety
and produces a certain amount of
exploratory Behavior perhaps you might
go to the professor and say why is it
that I got this B+ when I was expecting
an a don't you know what that's going to
do to my vision of the ideal future and
so on and so forth that's that's one
sort of disruption you're a bit anxious
but hey you have 29 other courses it's
not such a big deal now instead write
the mcap and you score in the 15th
percentile well now you're in trouble
because you have a vision of yourself
you think this is your version of the
unbearable present you're not a doctor
that's a pain in the nck but you're a
potential doctor you have the
intellectual resources at your disposal
and the educational background and and
and the familial uh push
perhaps to make you into a doctor and so
that's what You' conceived yourself as
that's your story about yourself is
you're the this person with set number
of potentials and you also have a vision
of where it is that you're going the
amcat store comes back and you're in the
15 percentile well your your ideal
future it's gone that's a big problem
because that means
that all of the events that have
surrounded you that surround you now and
as far back as you can remember that
we're given determinant significs by
this particular plan have all been cast
into chaos everything that you've done
up to that point has been predicated on
the notion that this is where you were
going and that means that the
significance that you attributed to
everything was attributed to everything
in relationship to that goal you blow
out the goal then all those
significances are back up in the air you
have to modify your version of yourself
like what the hell are you going to do
now you're not going to be a doctor you
put a lot of work into this plus it's
your whole self-conception well this is
gone this is gone I mean this is
irrelevant right I mean the other 29
courses why they are you even here
now so that's one example of the levels
at which anomalies can occur minor
league anomalies no problem you just
scoot around them and you go to the same
place Major League
anomalies it's a new ideal future that's
part of the reason that people are so
prone to ideological conflicts like this
is an ideology you could say it has a
particular version of the way things are
now you look at communist ideology it's
pretty it's pretty explicit
what's the unbearable present so to
speak well I know this is a bit dated
but running out of Hardline ideologies
to poke fun that so I have to use an old
one but um the unbearable present is the
class struggle and we have reasons for
that it's basically the fault of the
rich who are exploiting the poor the
ideal future is the point at which those
unfair divisions of capital are
eliminated and there's a whole bunch of
means to that end that's that's an
ideology while someone else has a
different ideology a different version
of the significance of current events a
different version of the significance
and and the nature of the ideal future
and a completely different apprehension
of how to transform one to the other
when those two cultures come into
contact well first of all they make each
other anxious because they're not
commensurate they're not commensurate
goals and if this is the structure that
regulates emotion well what's going to
happen well you can't just give up your
damn plans because then your emotions
are disregulated you fall into chaos so
to speak you don't know where you are
and you don't know don't know who you
are you don't know what to do and you
don't know where you're going that makes
you anxious neither side is going to
give up give up their
certainty well the only thing left in
under those circumstances is conflict
and you see this mean look how do how do
arguments escalate an argu argument with
someone that you love even they want one
thing you want another you discuss it
you're not getting anywhere your temper
raised because the abstract discussion
isn't helping finally you give up maybe
you move to to violence to solve your
problem to hammer out the story so to
speak you can do that by oppressing the
person who has a different different
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