Why is it that in the present day, people expect everyone to be void of normal and natural human emotion? Are we supposed to all be humanoids now? Robotic for Big Brother?
2006-08-09 09:40:02 · 6 answers · asked by zarandipity 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
first off I love your user name zarandipity (very creative) - yes people are suppose to breathe and think a like but not to be a communist - basically that is what the west has turned into Emotionally devoid politically correct Capitalists
I remember going on a date with some guy and we saw Elephant Man and i cried - he couldn't understand why i had gotten so emotional
when we learned about the Holocaust in History - i was the only one to get emotional - the teacher took me out of class because he thought something was wrong with me - so i yelled back no - I'm upset because no one else is affected by it
that is why so many kids are self mutilating - because you are not allowed to express emotions
2006-08-09 09:51:00 · answer #1 · answered by prettymama 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you think that we are supposed to not have emotion then you are sadly mistaken. Without emotions the human being would become void of life and light in that life. Emotions can not be surpressed. Eventually a tear would roll down a cheek, a smile would stretch across someones face, laughter would come from children. It is impossible to render a human void of emotion.
2006-08-09 16:43:55 · answer #2 · answered by Drew 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Emotions are tricky, unpredictable things, or at least to most folks who don't get paid to pay attention to them.
Objective facts, such as "water contains oxygen and hydrogen" cannot be argued with, since the procedures for proving the statement's accuracy produce the same results every time. Subjective statements, on the other hand, are neither predictable nor stable: "I like chocolate ice cream" is true for some people but not for others, some people who currently like it may stop liking it at some point, and some people will suppress their feelings in order to get along with other people, and so on.
Ultimately, having a 'healthy' emotional life is very difficult for most people. It's easy to have a 'healthy lifestyle' when you're talking about appropriate levels of exercise or paying attention to what you eat, because you can present objective evidence to establish whether or not you're achieving your goals (heart rate at such-and-such a level after running a mile, met USRDA levels for food in a 24-hour period with 200 calories left over, etc.) It's much more difficult to pay sufficient attention to your emotions when the only person who can directly experience and examine them is you.
Still, it's more than worth the effort. "The unexamined life is not worth living", as Socrates or Plato said, refers not to being subject to other people examining your life (say, stalkers or 'the aliens controlling the government'), but by paying attention to your own life so that you can live it more fully. A useful side-benefit of this research is gaining appreciation for how emotions work in other people; depending on your particular outlook on life, this knowledge can be useful in mainipulating them or in helping them.
2006-08-09 16:56:15 · answer #3 · answered by deputyindigo@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Why is it that in the present day, people expect everyone to be void of normal and natural human emotion?"
Uh, who are you talikg about?
2006-08-09 16:44:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the answer to that question, but I can tell you what bugs me. It's the way people you meet on the street always look like they're mad. Models in ads look the same way. Why don't people smile anymore? I keep smiling at everybody, hoping it will be contagious. (-:
2006-08-09 16:44:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have not gotten that impression at all. From where do you get this assumption?
2006-08-09 16:43:56 · answer #6 · answered by onejazzyjul 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋