The Ding Dong Effect
After a scientific study of several long and arduous minutes, I’ve decided to call it The Ding Dong Effect. What happens, that is, when one does the same thing over and over, continually. This Ding Dong thing doesn’t just happen to me, I figured, because other people talk about what happens when you say the same word over and over and over. It becomes meaningless, turns into a ringing in your head.
This effect is especially prevelant in computer work, amongst those called cubicle drones, doing things like renaming a bunch of files manually. The exact same keystrokes every time, with a slight variation at the end. I’ve been there and am there presently. Without the Ding Dong Effect, one could blaze through these tasks like a robot: Alt copy F2 enter select-all X plus paste and again! Easy, except you start getting confused if you do it fast a bunch in a row. It all becomes meaningless and you enter Ding Dong world.
A constant battle between will and wandering mind. Or you can go slow and take lots of breaks, which may not be an option in the workplace.
Do not boing the brain,
LWIII
I like this. It outlines the commonality of cycles in everyday experiences and in some cases their destructiveness(?). If it is destructive to become numb to something meaningless we are doing. But thinking about repetition as “a word representing s sound”, makes the movement to awareness of being encased in a cycle happen faster, so there is room for a rhizomatic flight to escape the cycle!
I love that, foldology, thanks! The concept of a rhizomatic flight boggles the mind. The roots of flight, leaving, yet leaving behind a network of rhizomes?
You know, I had this really bizarre dream years ago about this enormous cosmos-sized godlike being which was terrifying in its immensity and inhuman power. What it did was fold realities into each other. I called it The Folder.
So I dig foldology.