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Originally Posted by maxjohan
If you ever seen judge Judy, you know what the social society have been bringing to the table.
There's 1 in 10 on that show that can explain what they mean in 3 sentences. Others on there have to bring up everything, like every little meaningless detail and social play in their life before the event.
The same on Internet boards, you can see it more on mainstream boards, than here.
Someone is posting to knock down in on there money making scheme, but they can't tell it right out, they have to de-value their own information/opinion in some kind of way, before they get to post their opinion.
I wonder if there's some kind of psychological term for this. It's certainly a breeding from the social society we live in. "No one can take too much space, we all have to be part of the herd"
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It always reminds me of one of the movies that influenced me the most - the legendary Easy Rider from 1969.
I was a 12 year old kid, that was right after the break, and it was so cool that you could watch Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in your local theater.
It was a warm summer evening and my sister was dating a guy from New Jersey at that time, we went to the cinema together.
I remember Jack Nicholson, who was just about staring his acting career and played the crazy guy who joined them and then got killed by a bunch of morons - he said something like:
"if you're free, if you don't live by THEIR silly standards that were set by THEM, they're afraid of you"
I guess he pretty much nailed it
And it makes sense, because people are usually afraid of things that are different or things they don't understand, the whole organized church would never exist if someone would not be able to effectively scare people with something they don't understand.
So many people at the end don't understand a plenty of things and issues, and they get scared, which can as well result in something more animal like.
And I'm always very, very disappointed, when I face this coming from USA.
A country that was always, at least for me personally a country that praises success, skills, originality and attitude.
A country that praises the strength and skills of an individual over the sheep mentality of the crowd.
A country that praises its heroes and successful people as an inspiration for masses.
Unfortunately, and it's something that I can't forgive the modern TV, the web 2.0., something I can't forgive the modern day mass media in general - they made being a mediocre ignorant animal a standard.
And they just show it all the time and they target the animal instincts in you to exploit the rankings and get more advertising dollars, while masses are actually watching it, what's the worst I'm afraid some of them even take it semi seriously.