>Wouldnt it be cool if you could temporarily switch orientation? I would
>like to take a gay pill, that only works until one takes a straight pill
>to counteract it. It would help me to understand my friends who are gay.
>A million questions could be answered, such as:
This would be good. But taking the pill wouldn't answer all your questions. I want a way to piggyback into someone else's mind. To understand the gay life from inside the brain of someone who has lived that way for decades.
Other beings I'd like to understand from the inside: women, lesbians, nuns, seasoned warriors, hit men, the Dalai Lama, my daughter's rabbit, an ET, Koko the gorilla, fat people, little people, blacks, a dictator, my friends and family, Stephen Hawking, a humpback whale, the blind, an SI, an AI, ....
As interim substitutes, I read books and strike up conversations with people (and animals, I suppose) wherever I go.
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