Archive for April, 2008
Rubricizing ; a term coined by Abraham Maslow. He believed that there are two major ways to preview any experience. One is to observe its unique essence, how the experience is truly different and individualistic. The second, rubricizing, is to respond to an experience as a representative of a category (rubric). Rubricizing perception is similar to the actions of a file clerk who recognizes only what is minimally necessary to place a paper under A, B, Y, and so on. When we rubricize people, we quickly scan them for certain characteristics (often subsconscionusly) and place them into one of our mental file folders. A rubricized person becomes a member of a grouping : waiter, teenager, a Johnson kid, math major, jock, married, female, southerner, sorority type, and so on. Rubrics are categories of the mind.
I once was a van owner. Go watch my last film “Silly” to see Jaret Brantley huck himself over it. So I have much respect for van owners, especially the ones who obviously have no lives and dedicate their futures to making their vans the coolest things on the block.
