INTPs: Cultural events

[Architect]

Some older INTP descriptions say that we (INTP's) like cultural events in our free time. Personality Junkie (Drenth) says that INTP's generally don't.

I can't judge as I fell for classical music, opera and Shakespeare early in life, for whatever reason. So for INTP's only please I'd like to get to the bottom of it, how much do you like cultural events?

This includes classical music, opera, plays, ballet (I never liked it) or any of the above.

 

[Pyropyro]

I usually attend some of them with my friends. It's like visiting another world so I guess it enriches my inner world somewhat. The number of people in the venue makes me somewhat uncomfortable but my curiosity wins in the end.

 

[Brontosaurie]

oh i had missed the last line of OP when voting.

detest those 4. obsolete performances, cultural capital, overstated bombast, mindless protocol obedience, and no authenticity of any kind whatsoever. they make me feel worse than uni does.

regular ordinary down-to-earth flesh-and-bone concerts can be nice.

 

[GodOfOrder]

Can we draw a distinction between culture and culture. There is art and music, which I love and adore. These I can appreciate privately, and going to a concert hall doesn't involve anymore socializing than going to the movies. So I love it. Then there is culture, like public celebrations and community tradition which I hate with a passion; Also pop art and music, no sophistication.

 

[Kuu]

I frequent cultural events so much your scale made me laugh. I usually go to one every week, if not more, though rarely of those "super-high-culture" ones you've pointed out. I go to rooftop art-film screenings, free wednesdays to trash talk the current garbage at the modern art museum, experimental jazz ensembles, documentary nights at the local commies' waterhole, hipster craft markets, the japanese community culinary festival, university orchestra, beatnik poetry fridays at that chick's coffee house, photography galleries, guided historical walks, architectural conferences, folklore dance festival... This past saturday I was invited for a private talk and critique of some visiting installation artist, which is a new thing (rather banal, but free booze). Hell, I've even started my own cultural event, a monthly gathering of "urban conversations" (which should more properly be called "conspiracies").

When you're in the design professions, at least half of your acquaintances will have an art hobby, if not be full-time artists, and they will inevitably invite you to all sorts of things you never even knew existed. Although I must admit, I go to 60% of those events alone. It's weird, but then you often meet other weird people (I met a woman who claimed she had a conversation with the higgs boson while meditating about her family issues). Also, the majority of those events are free or nearly so. Opera is for rich people.

 

[DelusiveNinja]

Oh no! Too many people and too much noise. Maybe when I get older i'll do 2 a year but no more.

 

[QuietFire]

Snorefest.

 

[Jennywocky]

I actually enjoy them -- but I'm too disorganized to plan them far in advance, and not committed enough to pay top-dollar and actually show up at an appointed time in a large crowd of strangers.

I did get taken to the NY Met to see Die Walküre, a number of years ago, and a follow-up concert at Carnegie Hall. Pretty amazing experiences. And a friend took me to NYC to Gershwin Hall to see Wicked, in recent times. But see? Someone else needs to organize.

 

[Turniphead]

I don't mind them. It's very rare that I will go to one on my own initiative though. Usually only if it's something I already know I will like.

I get dragged along to them fairly often(every month or two, maybe). Plays, music shows, art openings, that kind of thing.

Doesn't really fit in your poll options - "Some specific interest, other things usually more important"

 

[BigApplePi]

Cultural events? What is a "cultural event"? You mean a social cultural event? No. I only go when someone persuades me. (Like I'm going to Paris in September to see what my wife has chosen in the cultural arena.) If you mean the various forms of art, my interest is to make sense of it. I used to go with a group who saw Off-Broadway plays and loved it. Learned an awful lot. But where are they now?

My interest in art is unfortunately non-social. I have a collection of books of what can be seen in museums. I have all the Shakespeare plays on VCR I think, but that's not a cultural event, is it? I have dozens of classical 12" records with plans to transfer them to CD's but haven't done so. I loved to play them when I was in my 20's.

So for INTP's only please I'd like to get to the bottom of it, how much do you like cultural events?

This includes classical music, opera, plays, ballet (I never liked it) or any of the above.

I don't see we have gotten to the bottom of it. Does the Q need to be rephrased?

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

I went to one GREAT cultural event in my lifetime. It was great to me for the circumstances rather than the event itself. It was a performance of Swan Lake by the Bolshoi ballet. I think I still have the paper ticket somewhere. Don't remember seeing it lately.

The circumstances: It was May 1986 in the Moscow Kremlin (1 month after Chernobyl and before the Soviet govt. officially announced to it's public that the disaster had occured. Many people there didn't know about it. At all.) I had just finished my freshman year in college and had been considering majoring in international relations. The idea of sitting in the halls of power of our (the US) great enemy of the time and watching one of their famous ballet troupes perform intrigued the hell out of me.

I did that head bobbing thing where you're fighting to stay awake during the second act.

Otherwise I've been to several symphonies, plays and such. I don't mind going but I don't particularly want to go either. If I have an excuse to not go I'll take it but I don't desperately look for an excuse either. I probably would if the oppotunity to go were more frequent.

I guess I agree more with Personality Junkie. I didn't feel any of the choices in the poll were fitting so I didn't vote.

 

[Perfectly Normal Beast]

I have voted for the 3rd choice, although the definition of cultural events is somewhat non-inclusive, so delete one from that if you want a pure result for the specific events that you mentioned. Or are you more interested to discern whether INTPs' distate for the necessary socializing which comes with attending such events is overidden by the desire to experience/learn from the events? If so then my response is that i will attend a very small number of events (mostly metal gigs, the odd play) which i feel can only be fully appreciated by actual attendance. But if i don't feel like i'm losing anything valuable (i haven't been to the cinema since i was about 16 - meh, the screen is bigger), i always prefer to bring the cultural event to me:

My interest in art is unfortunately non-social. I have a collection of books of what can be seen in museums. I have all the Shakespeare plays on VCR

I like your style BigApplePi!!

Why go to a cultural event, when you can enjoy the cultural event in the peace and privacy of your own home!

 

[doncarlzone]

I like cultural events but I mostly go alone. I have an unlimited cinema card and go quite frequently to concerts alone. When I go to an event outside my bedroom for a cultural experience, I personally find that I have much more patience and tend to find entertainment value where I wouldn't normally find it from my bedroom.

The reason I dislike going with others is because I have to consider the other person's feelings. If I want to go out in the middle of the movie, I will go out. If I'm enjoying a concert and a friend hates it, I will want that person to leave me so the negativity doesn't affect my joy.

 

[Lucifer van Satan]

I would love to go... but our national theater hardly gives shows of high quality.
So I'm stuck with my .FLACs