thinking of it that way, I agree.
I don't feel like I have control over how people around me feel. ALthough, there have been times when I've been pretty darn manipulative. I do think that EUOL can control feelings like he says. I can't think of a single time ever that I've been mad at him. And I've allowed myself to be encouraged by his words or controled by his peacemaking on more than one ocassion. I think of him as
this dragon here -- I think I am the fox more than the wolf though.
but control yeah, control. I like to create a world where the events that happen are satisfying to me and I don't have to disagree with someone else's vision of the work. I like a world where ... how to put this... in reading, often, I have to suspend my values. That is, I don't read works were sex is rampant and so on. But I have to accept a religion that espouses different fundamental values as good, where I have to not only accept htat not eveyrthing is black and white in terms of good and evil (I use that play in many of my stories, including one that started percolating this morning), but that I have to accept that not all values are black and white.
I'm sure I'm terribly unclear on that. I hate it when people try to tell me morality is relative. I won't go into why for that, but I hate it. Figuring out which principle is the one that takes priority is the hard part. Knowing that something is wrong is not.
I can get past that prediliction when reading. I can suspend my feelings on it for a good story. But I write so I don't HAVE to suspend anything. I can create a world where my moral viewpoint is correct, and then play within that system of values.
Am I making any sense.