I watched a very, very interesting video from Sleepless Homo.

Identity: The First Roles We Were Given: Why Identity Existed Before
Choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBfLqs2p6Nk&list=WL&index=28

It's long and drawn-out, like all videos from this channel, but well- researched and thoughtful and very worthwhile.

In the beginning, the group performed tasks. Some members specialized,
and those members became known as the doers of those tasks. As we moved
on, we made more complex systems and formed coalitions, and it became important to know to which group(s) a person belonged. Even before we
had words for character, we had consequences for unreliability. Social
life was not optional, and belonging was a survival need.

One of many interesting ideas was that early identity was more a set of
roles and permissions than an internal thing. It also comes to encompass expectation -- what others think we will do. Predictable behavior is important, because unpredictable behavior destabilizes the group.

I'll probably play this a few more times as background. Maybe it's time
to get back to my project on the development of consciousness.

I also watched another Bored to Death. I'm still enjoying it. They're
going with the idea that our hero has a problem with wine and pot,
though he's functional. I'm intrigued that they're willing to play this
for laughs. A decade or two earlier, grim seriousness would have been
expected even in a comedy.

What did everyone else watch?


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On 1/24/26 8:36 AM, The True Melissa wrote:

What did everyone else watch?

After a *really* long workday (I think it ended up being 11 hours) for
my last workday before the academic semester starts, all I got through was:

soaps - Y&R - Fri's ep off Pee+. A mostly nothingburger episode - it was mostly taken up with everyone continuing to s**t on Audra, though it
looks like Audra will now go to work for Sally (with Billy out of the picture). And in an idiotic development, they are going to have
now-crazy (wasn't she always crazy?!!) Mariah kidnap Devon's and Abby's
son. [roll]

Don't Breath a Word (LMN) - This wasn't good, but I guess it wasn't
horrible either. But it was mostly "paint by the numbers" (and it's not
well titled, as the title doesn't really have anything to do with what happened).
Gist? - Woman (Jenny Heaton - she's attractive) runs a Lamaze
studio(!?!) with her sketchy ginger partner (Amanda Button) - Anim would
say that "All gingers are EVOL!!1!", but this one is probably just
keeping a secret. What secret?... Well, this being a Lifetime flick,
there aren't that many possibilities, with the most obvious one being
the most logical. Anyway, Our Heroine(tm) (Heaton) spends most of the
flick looking discombobulated as she tries to figure out what secret her sketchy ginger partner is hiding while possibly being stalked(?).
This flick was obviously made for Anim because the "third female
lead" (Emily Ferguson) - one of Our Heroine's very preggers Lamaze
clients - was also a ginger!! ;p

What did you watch?



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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

Don't Breath a Word (LMN) - This wasn't good, but I guess it wasn't
horrible either. But it was mostly "paint by the numbers" (and it's not
well titled, as the title doesn't really have anything to do with what >happened).
Gist? - Woman (Jenny Heaton - she's attractive) runs a Lamaze
studio(!?!) with her sketchy ginger partner (Amanda Button) - Anim would
say that "All gingers are EVOL!!1!", but this one is probably just
keeping a secret. What secret?... Well, this being a Lifetime flick,
there aren't that many possibilities, with the most obvious one being
the most logical. Anyway, Our Heroine(tm) (Heaton) spends most of the
flick looking discombobulated as she tries to figure out what secret her >sketchy ginger partner is hiding while possibly being stalked(?).
This flick was obviously made for Anim because the "third female
lead" (Emily Ferguson) - one of Our Heroine's very preggers Lamaze
clients - was also a ginger!! ;p

Which secret was it? #3 or #7?

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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 1/24/26 8:36 AM, The True Melissa wrote:

What did everyone else watch?

After a *really* long workday (I think it ended up being 11 hours) for
my last workday before the academic semester starts, all I got through was:

soaps - Y&R - Fri's ep off Pee+. A mostly nothingburger episode - it was mostly taken up with everyone continuing to s**t on Audra, though it
looks like Audra will now go to work for Sally (with Billy out of the picture). And in an idiotic development, they are going to have
now-crazy (wasn't she always crazy?!!) Mariah kidnap Devon's and Abby's
son. [roll]

Don't Breath a Word (LMN) - This wasn't good, but I guess it wasn't
horrible either. But it was mostly "paint by the numbers" (and it's not
well titled, as the title doesn't really have anything to do with what happened).
Gist? - Woman (Jenny Heaton - she's attractive) runs a Lamaze
studio(!?!) with her sketchy ginger partner (Amanda Button) - Anim would
say that "All gingers are EVOL!!1!",

Absolutely

but this one is probably just

keeping a secret. What secret?... Well, this being a Lifetime flick,
there aren't that many possibilities, with the most obvious one being
the most logical. Anyway, Our Heroine(tm) (Heaton) spends most of the
flick looking discombobulated as she tries to figure out what secret her sketchy ginger partner is hiding while possibly being stalked(?).
This flick was obviously made for Anim because the "third female
lead" (Emily Ferguson) - one of Our Heroine's very preggers Lamaze
clients - was also a ginger!! ;p

Ewww

What did you watch?

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thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:

What did everyone else watch?

I tried to watch YouTube and something from the 32 channels on my
fifteen inch TV from the bed ten feet away in my hotel room and
gave up.

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