Friday, March 16, 2012

Inferiority complex


Do you know that phrase that says “take care of your life and I will take of mine”, right? Then perhaps you think you don't meddle on others' life because you don't like others to do the same to you, isn't it? Wrong! We don't want people to judge us because we are who we are or we aren't who we were supposed to be, but the truth is that we are always judging the others and, if we do it, it's because something displeases us (because we wanted to do what this person does but, for some reason, we are obligated or we obligate ourselves not to do some things).

A very annoying kind of behaving of Brazilians, - in the past discouraged by the fact of having to face the conflict in person -, and that have gained power on the internet recently is the "complaining in mass". Is the kind of people that, on the internet, gather people with all the same boring ideologies and cliche arguments, and feel protected to troll all and each one who has a different opinion of them.

In Brazil, in each beginning of the year we have the same people with the same arguments hoping Big Brother to pass good, beautiful, educative, erudite messages because it only has ripped and frivolous people. This year, besides the BB (whose audience doesn't stop falling and the show is getting more and more monotonous), we have a group that gets shocked with the TV show “Rich Women”. The haters' arguments aren't completely null because BB, Rich Women or any other reality-show of major or minor success always have “vileness, shamelessness, and it is not a good example to our 1920's puritan society”.

So, why do these people fell so offended by ripped people (previously labeled as “ignorants”), pretty women (previously labeled as “bitches”), pretty men (previously labeled as "faggots") or rich people (previously labeled as “frivolous”)? What do these people have of so bad that really offends their victims as they show on social networks with their aggressive and preschooler arguments full of irony and bad words?

The answer to this question tends to be detracted and not straightly answered. “Television has to pass good, worthy things, educational matters. Brazil is full of problems such as the politicians corruption and the Brazilian people are only concerned about Big Brother. That's why this country of shit don't go ahead”. The argument of a virtual revolutionary hardly ever is different from this. We are supposed to mobilize the whole country to their cause, on the contrary, we will suffer with their virtual cholera.

All this indignation may (potentially) have a psychological background. So much hate to that group may reveal their frustration with their own lives, possibly because they don't feel pretty, desired, interesting, satisfied with the lives they have, etc. Hating the participants of reality-shows may be, no less, than envy. They may have been people that, in some moment of their lives, suffered some kind of prejudice or discrimination because they were not pretty, ripped, frivolous, rich, etc and this aggressive behavior may be a kind of paying back, of putting out everything they couldn't being or having, a revenge. Seeing that people not-pretty, not-ripped, not-frivolous, not-rich watch these programs fill them of fury.

Deeply in our hearts, we wish we could be pretty, ripped, rich people. We all wish we could work less and have more fun. So why do they criticize so much a thing they would like to be or to be? Things they say to unimportant? Wouldn't it be envy or complex of inferiority?

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