phoenix1
Well-known member
Is it just me or does anyone else notice how much any intense emotion is utterly shunned these days?
Its not right for anyone to get overly down or upset or even for anyone to be really excited about something. The ideal image is someone who is like a robot who just goes about their day all stoic and dead-like. Obviously more so for guys, but even in women its looked at as an inferior trait that women have to cry and whine and get overly excited...almost like children. While us big strong stoic men buy the 'women-children' pretty diamonds and pretty clothes to keep them happy and try to stop them from feeling anything.
Look at whats on TV these days. None of the mainstream primetime shows seem to have any emotional depth or any emotional attachment what so ever. Its like an ADD feast of shocking visual imagery and off the wall humor to just hold our attention till the next visual feast.
Feeling down and feeling exciting is about is as human as we can get. We are suppose to feel bouts of sadness and happiness while we do our best to adapt to the world around us. I think its just a sad state that emotions are shunned so bad and braindead confidence is revered. Maybe none of us would have become so socially phobic if we were allowed to feel stupid and crazy and sad about things in a normal way instead of having to try to be so perfectly flat and 'normal'.
Its not right for anyone to get overly down or upset or even for anyone to be really excited about something. The ideal image is someone who is like a robot who just goes about their day all stoic and dead-like. Obviously more so for guys, but even in women its looked at as an inferior trait that women have to cry and whine and get overly excited...almost like children. While us big strong stoic men buy the 'women-children' pretty diamonds and pretty clothes to keep them happy and try to stop them from feeling anything.
Look at whats on TV these days. None of the mainstream primetime shows seem to have any emotional depth or any emotional attachment what so ever. Its like an ADD feast of shocking visual imagery and off the wall humor to just hold our attention till the next visual feast.
Feeling down and feeling exciting is about is as human as we can get. We are suppose to feel bouts of sadness and happiness while we do our best to adapt to the world around us. I think its just a sad state that emotions are shunned so bad and braindead confidence is revered. Maybe none of us would have become so socially phobic if we were allowed to feel stupid and crazy and sad about things in a normal way instead of having to try to be so perfectly flat and 'normal'.