Minute Paper for 1/17

Two things really struck me about today's class. The first thing was that all that mental space is being taken up, and yet we all seem to take it for granted that people know these things. The other thing that I really noticed was how opposite the views of the two readings were. On the one hand we had the writer teaching writers how to exploit the valuable "mental real estate." However, on the other hand in "Tragedy of the Mental Commons" we are acquainted with the view of such things being overly present, or our minds being "over-grazed." And even as I realize this, I sit here listening to music, letting the bands and songs make their own claim on my "mental real estate."

Andrew