Was that question from your coworker simply a request for information? Or was it a subtle shot at your ignorance? Your friends go out one night and don’t invite you. You see the two places you could go wrong: Was your snap judgment correct? And was your snap reaction appropriate? Our Chosen Stories Your spouse makes an observation you make a snap judgment - comment-as-insult - and you react with your own insulting comment, and the situation escalates. And because we are sinful, our snap reactions following our snap judgments are not always good. We might mistake a garden hose for a snake and unnecessarily panic. Because we are fallible, our framing can be mistaken.
More than simply being human, our fallibility and sinfulness complicate our framing. In short, because we are human, why we see things as we do is a complicated question. Behind our framing lies a complex web of imagination, memory, narrative-framing, embodied experience, and our present expectations, desires, and fears.
They don’t merely involve simple and straightforward judgments about dangerous bears and delightful laughter. In fact, we might say that our snap judgments and snap reactions are not in our immediate control (though, as we’ll see, they are shaped over time by our choices and experiences).Īs humans - with souls and bodies, hearts and minds, intellects and wills - our snap judgments are often incredibly complex. The speed of our snap judgments engages our snap reactions almost automatically. The framing bear-as-dangerous is why you jump in the car and drive away when you see one. Our snap judgments lead to snap reactions. We’re always framing, and it’s good that we are. “Framing has to do with the immediate and snap judgments that we make about reality and its relation to us.” The laughter is the same the framing - your snap judgment - is different. The child’s laughter that is delightful at one moment is a nuisance when you’re trying to get work done. Framing, then, has to do with the immediate and snap judgments we make about reality and its relation to us. We smell the aroma of cookies as pleasant. We hear the laughter of a child as delightful. We hear the buzzing of a fly as annoying. We see things as.Īnd not just sight, but our other senses as well. When you see a sunset, you don’t just see the sunset you see the sunset as beautiful. If you see a bear, you don’t just see a bear.
In particular, it refers to the fact that, as human beings, we don’t merely see things we see things as. Not framing as in home construction, but framing as in the way we perceive reality.
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