Drama, why look?

[mistermack]

Because we evolved.
We are social creatures, and have an instinct to work out a pecking order. This involves constant testing of others, and being aware of the status of each individual.
As younger members of a group get bigger and stronger, they have to bicker and fight to improve their status, and if a higher ranked individual shows signs of weakness, you have to grab the chance to put them down, or possibly help them out and cash in on status when they recover.
If you study Chimpanzees, you'll encounter endless drama.
It made us what we are.

[Rum]

Personally I try to stay out of a drama when it is 'running hot' as I have experience of getting burnt badly in the past, here and elsewhere. However sometimes it is very difficult, especially if one sees one's own words being used or quoted in ways that weren't meant, or people getting bruised you want to support etc.

It is hard to stay away! All human life is here!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There's always the hope that we've started to learn how to get along.

[Rum]

There's always the hope that we've started to learn how to get along.

We do for the most part but...

[Robert_S]

By the time I realize I'm looking at drama, I've been looking at drama.






There is also the assumption that silence = approval, or at least non-disapproval.

[Audley Strange]

There's always the hope that we've started to learn how to get along.

Yeah,but has anyone else noticed, that mass instant communication has made us, generally, a lot more impatient and often nasty in how we communicate with others?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There's always the hope that we've started to learn how to get along.

Yeah,but has anyone else noticed, that mass instant communication has made us, generally, a lot more impatient and often nasty in how we communicate with others?

I know that people say things on the internet they wouldn't say to me in person.

[Robert_S]

There's always the hope that we've started to learn how to get along.

Yeah,but has anyone else noticed, that mass instant communication has made us, generally, a lot more impatient and often nasty in how we communicate with others?

I know that people say things on the internet they wouldn't say to me in person.

On the internet, nobody knows that you're mellower than Morgan Freeman on morphine, even when the vehicle breaks down and it's around somewhere around 40 degrees centipede outside.

[Audley Strange]

@Gawdzilla Is that healthy in so far as sometimes we need our egos deflated from time to time or unhealthy in that we are becoming more aggressive?

[Sælir]

There's always the hope that we've started to learn how to get along.

Yeah,but has anyone else noticed, that mass instant communication has made us, generally, a lot more impatient and often nasty in how we communicate with others?

I know that people say things on the internet they wouldn't say to me in person.

On the internet, nobody knows that you're mellower than Morgan Freeman on morphine, even when the vehicle breaks down and it's around somewhere around 40 degrees centipede outside.

40 degrees centipede

[Robert_S]

Because we evolved.
We are social creatures, and have an instinct to work out a pecking order. This involves constant testing of others, and being aware of the status of each individual.
As younger members of a group get bigger and stronger, they have to bicker and fight to improve their status, and if a higher ranked individual shows signs of weakness, you have to grab the chance to put them down, or possibly help them out and cash in on status when they recover.
If you study Chimpanzees, you'll encounter endless drama.
It made us what we are.

I don't see us as trapped by our origins as all that.

Sometimes we're compassionate and egalitarian because we like being that way. It feels warm and comforting, not unlike like pooping one's pants or gratuitously using double negatives.

In one fellowship I belonged to, a piece of one of the mantras read "...to place principles above personalities. It's a good idea if you have good principles.

Bringing it back to the chimps: We humans do sometimes put abstract ideas instead of fellow primates in the Alpha and Omega positions. We've had JHVH1, Freedom of Speech, The Common Good, Capitalism, Communism, The Family, etc for the Alpha and for the Omega we've had Satan, Communism, Capitalism, Censorship, The Jersey Shore, etc.

I think as long as we don't take all that too seriously when things start to get absurd looking, we do rather well.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There's always the hope that we've started to learn how to get along.

Yeah,but has anyone else noticed, that mass instant communication has made us, generally, a lot more impatient and often nasty in how we communicate with others?

I know that people say things on the internet they wouldn't say to me in person.

On the internet, nobody knows that you're mellower than Morgan Freeman on morphine, even when the vehicle breaks down and it's around somewhere around 40 degrees centipede outside.

Shit happens. If you wait long enough, all shit happens.

[Tero]

Well you have hit on a problem. Forums like this are not for wimps, so those that mistake it for reality soon drop out.

[Robert_S]

Well you have hit on a problem. Forums like this are not for wimps, so those that mistake it for reality soon drop out.

You think?

It looks to me like the people who have the most problems online as far from being "wimpy". Too much the opposite actually.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Well you have hit on a problem. Forums like this are not for wimps, so those that mistake it for reality soon drop out.

You think?

It looks to me like the people who have the most problems online as far from being "wimpy". Too much the opposite actually.

Just people. And there in lies the problem.