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Why Frame Problems? — Frame Problems
We are all engaged in two projects: living life, and telling stories about it. Our lives as lived are often chaotic, jumbled, aimless. They suggest no obvious purpose. Think of William James’s “blooming, buzzing confusion,” or what Joan Didion called “the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” We make this chaos workable, as Didio... See more
This means it’s really easy to get stuck. Stuck in your current way of seeing and thinking about things. Frames are made out of the details that seem important to you. The important details you haven’t noticed are invisible to you, and the details you have noticed seem completely obvious and you see right through them. This all makes makes it diffi... See more
johnsalvatier.org • Reality has a surprising amount of detail
Before you’ve noticed important details they are, of course, basically invisible. It’s hard to put your attention on them because you don’t even know what you’re looking for. But after you see them they quickly become so integrated into your intuitive models of the world that they become essentially transparent. Do you remember the insights that we... See more
John Salvatier • Reality has a surprising amount of detail

Film uses disorder to create order of another sort … Film's response to modernity a century ago was to bind its chaos into form by crafting it. Our response a century later is identical. Like film, we create reality by framing life's events, focusing on its particulars. Our angles, values, interactions construct the world in which we live. We are m
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