misery loves company
how true is this quote! and i can’t begin to tell you how confused i get to watch people bath in it. soak it in… in attempts to make themselves feel good about their lives, they continue to suck on the blood that others have lost… or is it that we just simply love martyrs. i mean in a sense, a lot of times those people that fill the “misery” category, are those that have been wronged in some way. so we feel sympathetic, even sorry for these people.
Again, another quote from my favorite movie, Waking Life:
A self-destructive man feels completely alienated, utterly alone. He’s an outsider to the human community. He thinks to himself, “I must be insane.” What he fails to realize is that society has, just as he does, a vested interest in considerable losses and catastrophes. These wars, famines, floods and quakes meet well-defined needs. Man wants chaos. In fact, he’s gotta have it. Depression, strife, riots, murder, all this dread. We’re irresistibly drawn to that almost orgiastic state created out of death and destruction. It’s in all of us. We revel in it. Sure, the media tries to put a sad face on these things, painting them up as great human tragedies. But we all know the function of the media has never been to eliminate the evils of the world, no. Their job is to persuade us to accept those evils and get used to living with them. The powers that be want us to be passive observers. Hey, you got a match? And they haven’t given us any other options outside the occasional, purely symbolic, participatory act of voting. You want the puppet on the right or the puppet on the left? I feel that the time has come to project my own inadequacies and dissatisfactions into the sociopolitical and scientific schemes, let my own lack of a voice be heard. (He pours gasoline all over himself and lights himself on fire.)
- And as one realizes that one is a dream figure in another person’s dream, that is self awareness. Timothy “Speed” Levitch
it has always amazed me at how fast bad news travels. and how little, if at all, we hear about the good things that people are doing. Seems that we’re quick to “support” someone we hardly even know, over the people that we see everyday. How much do we take our loved ones for granted (well, that’s another topic)?
What is it that attracts us to people who are suffering? I don’t think that it’s as most of “them” say, “they need something to make them feel good about themselves, and their lives”. I don’t totally believe this, which is to say, i don’t totally disagree either. I do feel that there is s certain level of compassion and general concern. yet, i still don’t understand why we revel in it? why does it become such an intense feeling; moment in time?
This topic i do believe carries two sides to it. I’d just like to see people get this passionate and emotional about the goods things too. and I’d like the news to take more responsibility in this effort as well.
I to will make a conscious effort to promote positive things, and to support positive endeavors. and to not get caught up in gossip and debauchery of people’s misery.
Great people talk about ideas.
Average people talk about things.
Small people talk about other people.
– Author:Unknown
