Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, part 2: Portrait of the autist as an old man

Rich waxes lyrical about the dinner party scene. Do men have impaired theory of mind, or are they just assholes? On the invisible mastery of social reality, and capturing subjective experience in literature. It goes well enough that the boys decide to actually read the rest of the book.

CHAPTERS

• (00:00:00) pre-roll jibber jabber
• (00:12:55) a man monologues on the male tendency to monologue
• (00:17:35) bogged down by poetic prose
• (00:22:33) Women as facilitators of social interactions
• (00:32:02) Do women have better theory of mind, or are men just assholes?
• (00:42:12) Mastery over social reality is invisible
• (00:48:34) Subject-object distinction
• (00:51:50) Where to from here
• (00:55:27) Further thoughts on value of subjective experience in writing
• (01:02:06) Are we gonna actually finish the book