CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Mechanisms in Your Brain You Would Assume We All Had

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

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Being human, you assume that certain psychological mechanisms that keep us from being hurt would be inherent in all of us, you'd be wrong.

For example, the "This Person Doesn't Like Me" mechanism. Some people, when they don't like you, aren't directly mean to you, but instead are utterly disinterested in your existence as a fellow human being. These people, when engages in conversation, respond in bored, only passingly polite monosyllabic utterances such as "Oh?" and "Really?" and "Uh-huh". You would think that any human being, when a conversation is attempted and the other person responds in vague, not-even-sure-if-they're-paying-attention responses, that little mechanism would go off in their brain that says "This person doesn't like me!" and would then immediately disengage conversation and, from that point, remain only cordial with the person. However, some people lack that part of their brain, and I'm not sure how this is possible. You would think that this would be instinctual, kind of like how we instantly know ugly people are not for mating purposes.

Another seemingly instinctual mechanism that some people, bafflingly, lack, is the "Maybe It's Me" mechanism. This mechanism alerts you to the fact that, after extended periods of time of not getting along with those around you, clicks on and says "Hey. Maybe it's me. Maybe everyone else is right and I'm wrong." Now, nobody likes to admit that they're in the wrong, but you would think that, after extended periods of time of being disliked by large groups of people, they would either start to stick to themselves or do some serious soul searching and attempt to find and get rid of whatever personality trait conflicts with others.

Now, with either mechanism, I'm not talking about crazy people. Crazy people obviously lack these mechanisms, which is why they are crazy. The same goes for retards. What I'm talking about is otherwise reasonably sane individuals who are total assholes and only get along with other assholes (yet secretly hate them because even assholes hate assholes), or completely oblivious people who are rational but live in their own little world. How did these people escape having what you would think would be inescapably human nature?
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with love from CRS @ 8:21 PM 

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