Just another chopstick?
Everything that a human does to assert control is an action done to cover up for a certain aspect he is lacking in. Think about all those people who self-mutilate. They are proving a point that they have control over their own bodies by mutilating it. This can be considered a form of self-assertion, and that makes them feel better and they can officially say that they do have control over a certain aspect of their lives.
Then think about those people who wish to control other peoples' lives. All control freaks are trying to assert their control over something, just because they can. It's never about the betterment of society or something equally noble--there's something primal about dominating. And why would they want to dominate if they are wholesome humans with wholesome souls?
Everyone's show of strength is an indication of insecurity. Like, during every countries' national day parade, they parade their military might for the world to see as a form of deterrence, to scare off people that might be stronger than them. Why else would Singapore bother so much about NDP?
And if you're up-to-date with the news you can see the Bangkok situation in which protesters are donating blood just to spill it all over the governmental buildings. It's quite a novel idea, I was quite taken aback by the pure novelty of it, but isn't it just saying that:
Hey I don't have the balls to kill myself so I'm going to throw a bit of blood as a symbolic gesture so that you people would know that I am serious when I'm actually quite reluctant to give up my life for this cause.
I'm not trying to demean the protesters, but I'm pretty sure most of the demonstrators are not going to give up their lives for an ideal government. Frankly speaking, I wouldn't. But that's me, and I'm quite apathetic about politics.
Moving on from that, you can look at rapists. They normally have something lacking in their lives, like social confidence, or perhaps suffer from trauma by a slutty ex-girlfriend, or something along those lines. Then they exact their revenge on other females just because they can, and want to show that they can.
I'm pretty sure that I've proven my point about a display of strength as an indication of weakness.
Everyone would have seen couples before. Couples making out, couples having sex, couples having sex on trains/buses/taxis, couples roaming around holding hands muttering sweet-nothings into each others' ears, males coaxing their female partners into bed, etc. Why are they coupling? I think it's just to feel better about themselves, to assuage the loneliness they feel from being just a part of society, a cold, unfeeling, emotionless machine. Your special friend is just a buffer from what you're trying to hide--yourself. You only want to escape from a certain unfeeling factor in your life, and perhaps get what you're missing in your life from your partner. That's why they always say mushy stuff like 'missing piece'. It's because you're imperfect alone that's why you need someone else to complete the whole of you.
-points at Alastair and says 'sour grapes'-
But I feel that that's true. And everyone isn't perfect. Except me (;
Everyone should have met a gang before. Like, those you see off the streets always picking a fight with anyone that they don't find pleasing to their eyes. Why do they band together? And why do they pick fights with individuals most of the time, and not other gangs?
Most people would have heard about the 'unity is strength' philosophy. Like, 'one chopstick alone can be broken, but many chopsticks banded together would be hard to break', etc. Just because it's hard to break so many things together doesn't change the fact that the thing itself is weak. Gangs, formidable though they look, simply reflects the fact that the members, as individuals, are weak.
Unity is strength, that is irrefutable. But do you really want to be known as a weak person? Just another chopstick? A disposable cog in the grand machine of what is called 'society'?
If Superman is Superman he wouldn't need Justice League.
-- 3/18/2010 12:46:00 AM
