Published on 12, July, 2020
Just riffing here… but consider a sink that’s half blocked. You run the tap on full and the amount of water pouring out is more than the water that’s being drained away, so the sink gradually fills up.
I wonder if this might be analogous to some of the challenges we face. That is, our brains have a greater tendency to absorb or generate input with a slower ‘draining away’. This might explain both sensory overload and obsessive tendencies (specialist subjects is a more generous term) as in the former case we get too much external input which builds up and up without sufficient draining away. In the latter case, it’s internal ideas that we latch on to and they also start going round and round.
Pure conjecture! Probably way too simplistic. But I like to spot patterns and generalisations/underlying principles, so I wonder if there’s anything to it, as it’s a possible partial explanation for two seemingly different things.
" Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? "
No, compare me to a blocked sink
........It'll never catch on, but I hear what you're saying.
Ben
Good point, it’s not exactly the most flattering analogy. It sounded better in my head!