Not wanting to get too political, a thought crept in my pea and got me thinking or rather pondering......
This brilliant hatred or disgust (again, excuse the non-inclination towards political correctness) that we or rather most people have against the 'bullying' Americans with their thoughts and actions towards the rest of the 'oh-not-so-strong' nations a little mis-conceived?
Could it be more of the natural human tendency of man/woman to hate the top dog or bitch as the case may be?
So America struts her stuff around, tells people what to do and what not quite similar to that over-bearing aunt you can't see the back enough of... So you 'hate' her(America), form discussions, ridicule her and the derogation continues.. till you're either blue in the face or you have run out of expletives... Fair enough. In the same breath, what exactly is it that bothers us so much? Israel did the same with Palestine, China has done it with Tibet (I don't see anything happening on that front), Soviet Union had done it, Bosses do it to their assistants, Bullies in School Grounds do it, Elder siblings do it...well, you get the picture. Could it be what we hate is Power or rather the lack of it?
I mean, imagine a hypothetical situation where, India got its act together and became the Alpha Male in this world, imagine the kind of power that USA enjoys in our hands, can you imagine the havoc?!?! Hell, imagine it in the hands of North Korea or Iran .. or one of our famed Computer Lecturers from College, can you imagine the chaos?!? Scary propositions I agree, so where am I heading here, you may ask; Could it be that the hatred is instead more indirectly directed towards humans..us? After all we are from the same seed, we are blooming mad and we LOVE power!!
The thought that really scares me now is that, the problems are not going to end with America's demise or the demise of Taliban, or that of Institutionalized Education Systems rather with the demise of Man and that scares me for the simple fact that the last time I checked in the mirror, I was one of the hominoid species...hmmm... we ARE in trouble aren't we..
~cheerio~ (a lil frightened)
9 comments:
see the prob is we love the enemy..in one way or the other..i dono..i hate the US..actually only bush..but i like a lotta their other stuff..so where r we going with this discussion?
dont u think all this is moreover a personal choice ? rather than generalising by sayin tht we hate the strong..i mean with reference to ur mention of the fact tht we hate them coz they are a super poiwer..now there cud be zillions who like the fact tht they're a super power..but still hate the US coz of the moron who runs the show..
true we seem to have that lil escape route thanks to BOZO who's runnin the show(and i'm not talking bout the original one, him i did love)... I think people always refer to americans as big dumb, uncivilized, fat, obnoxious etc etc. My point is "we" hate the super power and we have a perfect punching bag in the form of Bush.. remember he as elected by the people.. imagine if someone like an Osama or one of those blood thirsty african warlords took over..maybe the cold russians or the meticulous chinese...?? everybody whos come to power has fucked up.. and how..everybody hates Bush but there could be worse scenarios...
P.S. In no seemingly innocuos manner do i support Bush or any of his cronies, I'm just a lil worried that its a lot more than one ignorant red-neck that is the problem here....
hmmm..i guess the concept is more or less like ppl hating the rich or the successful..wht u gonna do now..its just our default nature i guess, to hate someone who's gone one step ahead of us..and the simple fact tht inspite of being different they(americans) seem happy in their world ..i think we have some sort of an inferiority complex..
did you know the germans have a word for "the feeling of joy when someone more succesful than you suffers"... it escapes me now, but it holds so very true.. My point is not about inferiority complex, just the feeling of helplessness that even if it was in any body else's hands(power); our situation(i.e. the world) would be more or less in the same fucked up state...:( which IS quite freaky....
SCHEDENFREDUE..!!
(schaw-den-froyd) :D
*thats the word.... :P
Nitpick I be, but I couldn't help it.
The word is Schadenfreude :)
Nitpick I be, but I couldn't help it.
The word is Schadenfreude :)
yes.. thats the one.. shukran!
You're welcome.
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