Prometheus 6

Carl Jung had an interesting approach to studying spirituality. He recognized he couldn't approach the supernatural stuff directly but he could study the impact people's beliefs had on their personal psychology and behavior. I've tried to take a similar approach in my observations of folks and I've developed a number of ways to model people's behavior. In one of the models I use, a person's world/self view is a narrative. The narrative is 'run' like a program, with current or speculative data as 'inputs,' to make decisions. The narrative develops from each person's interaction with their environment. This model is as bare-bones as a weather model consisting of nothing but the daily temperature plotted on an X-Y grid...but that bare-bones model does display broad but useful patterns. In particular, it models my understanding of Black folks' reaction to Dr. Cosby well.