Novelty

In this post, we cave to the imaginary demand from our audience for a viewing experience that is a little more … titillating.

A blue nutted one, with abbout half of the chocolate gone, but a candy coat on the peanut nub. It rotates back and forth.

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What's the lesson here? Maybe "If you're going to be ugly, at least learn how to dance?"

A round yellow one with some dark spots, doing the jitterbug, maybe?

Or maybe "If you move fast, they'll have a harder time seeing your flaws." This is a useful approach when you need to bamboozle some people into following you — keep changing the rules so nobody can properly evaluate you. That way, they will always be playing catch-up while you pretend to know where you're going.

A lozenge-shaped blue one (maybe two nuts in there) with some candiless dark patches. It spins!

But in truth, perhaps the lesson is merely: "Our lizard brains seem programmed to pay attention to wiggly things — take advantage of that how you will."

A corpulent blue one with dark patches. It wiggles back and forth and the light glints off of it.

Whether by something new or something scintillating, towards good ends or not, our minds are easily tickled. Beware the tickles.