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RE: Trump, the Coronavirus & Justin Sun ... a Rorschach Test

in #ocd5 years ago

@ireenchew,

So the way these Rorschach inkblots work is that people "see in them what they want."

For example, let's say you're suffering from anxiety but can't identify the reason. A psychologist shows you these ambiguous inklblots and asks, "What do you see?"

"My mother putting my pet cat, Kanoodle, in the oven at 350 for an hour."

The idea is that you will "see what you want to see" ... which tends to be that about which you are most emotionally distressed (the root cause of your lunacy).

Respecting Trump, the Coronavirus and Justin Sun, a lot of people are "catastrophizing" ... grossly, even ridiculously, exaggerating the scale of things. They're making mountains out of molehills. So, my satire was about creating a series of ever-escalating, and entirely nonsensical, descriptions of what people were "seeing" so as to demonstrate the magnitude of the silliness.

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