C-269. Flow and CEM: pleasure and satisfaction
On a playground for children we can expect to find swings and, sometimes, a teeter-totter. In a back yard, a home-made swing perhaps but not a teeter-totter. Both amusements offer “flow,” conceptually speaking: the one back and forth and the other up and down.
But the up and down of the teeter-totter at greater cost than the back and forth of the swing. The up and down is contingent on arranging a balance of weight between the two arms of the teeter-totter … or there will be no “flow” at all, only disappointment. But if balance is achieved, then pleasure will be accompanied by the satisfaction of achievement.
The satisfaction of solving a problem. Not the faux satisfaction of overindulged pleasures. Rather, the CEM feeling of accomplishment.
Flow is selfish. CEM is Selvish. CEM requires architecture.
(c) 2023 R. F. Carter
But the up and down of the teeter-totter at greater cost than the back and forth of the swing. The up and down is contingent on arranging a balance of weight between the two arms of the teeter-totter … or there will be no “flow” at all, only disappointment. But if balance is achieved, then pleasure will be accompanied by the satisfaction of achievement.
The satisfaction of solving a problem. Not the faux satisfaction of overindulged pleasures. Rather, the CEM feeling of accomplishment.
Flow is selfish. CEM is Selvish. CEM requires architecture.
(c) 2023 R. F. Carter
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