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Originally Posted by pbradley
In practice, my priorities play a pivotal role in my memory which then in turn makes me look like a egotistical douche for not remembering so-and-so's name at a party or predictably one-track if you are aware of my priorities. I have a pre-conscious aversion to retaining "pointless" information. Yet this sounds more like a stereotype of myopic scientists too busy thinking of their study. I can only conclude that I was born a mindless philosopher. Me = fucked.
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Go careful with this line of thought. I was very similar, but I'm good with names now. That came from working at it, and getting better at building mental emotional relationships to a person (strictly as an object). A lot of people use self-analysis as a caveat for cuntestry, and the truth of the matter is that if you're shit with names, it is something you can work on.
Or, to appeal to your philosopher's side: it's a similar mis-application of a train of thought that can lead from an innocuous appreciation of Heidegger to a plan to exterminate thousands of Jews.
Further: Self-analysis is not even a metaphor for mental masturbation, and we all know wankers go blind.