We just watch Keeping Up Appearances for half an hour. Nothing could be as traumatic as trying to drink tea from fine bone china with hand painted periwinkles
Is this too do with the focus you get from playing Tetris as well as the Tetris effect that can occur afterwards that’ll keep your brain occupied so you don’t think about the trauma as much?
When you see something traumatic, your brain will over the next few hours create images of the traumatic event. These images will come back to you as flashbacks over the years. Playing a game that requires high focus on visual details prevents the brain from creating those images, and as a result you'll get less (or not at all) flashbacks after the traumatic event.
I think you’ve summed it up brilliantly here. I’m sure anyone who’s ever played a game like Tetris a little too long will remember closing their eyes to go to sleep and still seeing tetronimos! So I guess it pushes everything else out of the ‘RAM’ of our visual memory, including the traumatic stuff. No room for this horrid memory, the mind-cupboard is full of tetronimos now
I remembered as a bored primary school kid circa 2004 discovering my dad’s old OG Game Boy from 1989 and playing the hell out of the bundled Tetris game.
Here’s some other ideas that’ll turbocharge this green transition:
Get the Shetland to Scotland interconnect upgraded so they don’t have to keep switching off the turbines because they’re generating more power than Shetland consumes and can be transmitted back to the mainland.
Artificial energy islands off the north coast of Scotland to connect large amounts of wind turbines.
Approve and accelerate Viking Link to build out the future energy market with Norway.
Co-design and co-finance huge shared north sea wind farms with Norway.
Significantly increase taxes on capital gains with an exemption for green power investments. Stand back and watch how quickly private capital can move to fund large projects when properly incentivised.
Work with the City (of London) to create funds for people to invest via LISAs, Investment ISAs, and Pensions that fuel a new UK citizen owned green energy company. Stand back and watch as a new generation get wealthy the same way previous ones did when British Gas was privateised. Socilise the risk, socilise the profits.
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