Prije nekih šest godina, moj četverogodišnji sin i ja bili na katu gledajući Otkriće kanala "shark attacks" poseban (ova možda). He was very young at the point and I was always worried what he might see on a show like this and how he might take it. I didn’t want him to develop, na primjer, bilo koji posebni strahuje vode ili lani nešto neprimjereno svojim prijateljima, a možda i dovesti svoju mrežu beba prijatelju da se obruši.
Discovery handles these kinds of subjects very well. It’s not about creating a Strah od nešto, but rather to show how unusual it is for sharks to attack humans.
Tako, we’re watching it and there is this one particularly scary attack involving a small girl. As Discovery is building the drama of the attack, moj sin (koji je oduvijek bio iznimno nervozan ionako), is getting very excited. I make some noises about how unusual it is for sharks to attack people, and how bad the poor girl must feel. I’m trying to explain that people recover from these events and become stronger for it. Međutim, I had misinterpreted his excitement. He was not worried about the girl at all. Umjesto toga, dok je pljeskao rukama, on mi kaže, "The sharks love it! It’s terrific. It’s wonderful. Its a DREAM COME TRUE!"
Mislio sam da je ovo bio smiješan, but also very disturbing. U jednu ruku, Bilo mi je drago — čak i malo ponosni — da bi on mogao imati jake osjećaje empatije, cross-species though they may be. As humans, we need to develop our "empathic muscles" tako govore ili ćete završiti kao ovaj tip 🙂 On the other hand, he was feeling cross-species empathy toward a species who was exhibiting behavior inimical to his own. I was really struggling with this when the narrator used the word "paradigm". My son picked up on that and asked me what that meant.
To nije lako, kao riječ za opisati na četiri godine starim, but I gave it a try. When I think of the word "paradigm", Thomas Kuhn is never far from my thoughts. I read Struktura znanstvenih revolucija
U svakom slučaju, Ja pokušavam objasniti mu Kuhnian razlučivosti, that it’s "a historical movement of thought" and that it’s a "way of thinking with a number of built-in assumptions that are hard to escape for people living at that time." Naravno, ne može razgovarati kao s četiri godišnja, so I’m trying to successively define it to smaller pieces and feeling rather proud of myself as I do so. (Upravo sam znali da je netko izvan sudačke će se brinuti da sam pročitao Kuhn!).
I’m just warming to the task when he interrupts me. Waving his hand u mom smjeru općeg i ne skidajući pogled s druge brutalnom napadu morskog psa, on samo kaže:, "Yeah, da, da. Pretjerivanje, pretjerivanje, blah.".
So much for that 🙂
U tom trenutku, Sam odlučio pobjeći, retorički govoreći, zasjesti, i uživati gledajući morski psi napadaju ljude s mojim sinom.
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