RE: STV - Ugly People Music (Things Are Not All Black And White)
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When I was a kid, not even left my first decade on earth, I already learned whatever was shown in magazines, was fake. I spend my school time, living in boarding schools surrounded by kids of both sexes. The girls especially were told not to try and see the pictures in Cosmopolitan, Vogue and whatever magazine as true and honest. Without the internet, less of those in our faces, but the fakeness wasn't too much different.
Peer pressure. Could be this is more intense these days, but I remember quite some peer pressure in the schools I was in, as well as at boarding school. Kids can be nasty towards each other. And I lived between kids 24/7, at least during the weekdays, evenings, and nights. Lots and lots of peer pressure. Can't tell if such is more intense these days. I don't have kids, so I don't hear the stories every day. But when peeps say this is the case, I shall believe them.
That said these days peeps are becoming more sensitive, perhaps even more weak. Not sure if 'weak' is the correct word. What the cause is, I dont know, but I find it a tat too easy to blame this on the internet and social media, as so many peeps do. Our cultures have changed (in black/white terms) from being socially responsible to me me me which had nothing to do with Internet. Perhaps this shift also results in all the shizzle we are in now.
I do see the beauty in 'ugliness' as well 😉 My friends think I am at least a tat weird and strange. Whenever they tell me this, I get this fuzzy feeling, a pleasurable one. So I must like the fact that I am not part of the herd 😉
No her for us!
People becoming more sensitive is a logical response to the world being so harsh, it´s like flower power all over again if you ask me. And that flower power revolution brought some change, and so will this one. But the Wokeness will die down and become integrated within the new normal. Society is an ever-changing animal, but change always comes in waves.
The internet a beautiful horror, we get so much inputs that it seems we resolve to individualism instead of connection. Guess too much connection will do that, it´s a natural response ; doing the opposite.
All that information and connection makes people only pick the info and connections that fit their view, and at the same time they think they know it all because they have the internet and are listening to people that are preaching to their choir.
I guess you indeed had serious peer pressure growing up. I hardly had any. I grew up pretty poor in a pretty wealthy area. Growing up I did not have what my friends had, but nobody really cared. I had no peer pressure at all because I did not give a toss. But for those who do give a F it is kinda sick. Depression because of not looking like an insta queen while you are only 14.
I mean I think that is definitely worse now than when you could onlñy compare yourself to Vogue and the Hitkrant-
I do have a kid, but he´s kinda smart enough to not fall for fakeness and peer pressure (hmm not giving a toss might be in the DNA. But the internet makes their life harder ins ome ways. It´s so much easier to bully someone, or make someone feel left out now that you have mobile phones.
But it´s not just the internet, society is pushed or is choosing to live more and more in isolation. Which is great for those in power because if people are disconnected they are less likely to stand up all together. Divide and conquer.
But who am I just a grumpy guy who does not like most mainstream people, I prefer the ones that listen to Uglu People Music every once in a while.
Personally, I wasn't too susceptible to peer pressure. I am odd in a way anyway, and learned that already when I was young. But I saw lots of it around me. Simply because so many kids always living together. But had this strange experience in high school. My math teacher singled me out because of my high grades. Using me as an example to those who didn't do that well, openly in the classroom. Obviously, those kids started to dislike me big time. I didn't care too much until it happened a few times these other kids/teenagers started fighting me. Still am puzzled why this teacher did what he did. At the same time, I made special deals with this math teacher. For instance, allowing me to do my homework for other classes, something that was a no-go for the rest of the class or even the entire school. Obviously not liked by a bunch of other kids/teenagers. But I didn't care 😂
Anyways, it isn't easy to live in today's age. Was reading a long article by a group 3 and 6 teachers yesterday. Her experiences with parents. She says: I can handle kids, the easy ones but also the difficult ones. But I can't handle parents. Plenty of parents tell here their kids need special care, a special program since they have high IQ. Push her over and over, pressure her to do whatever, speak to the director of the school, complain about her, demand special tests and whatnot. While her experience is these kids are not more than average, perhaps lagging a bit. She was telling some of the parents don't want to talk with her anymore at all. This drive of parents for their kids to perform is tremendous these days. Perhaps this stems from social media that gave us the rating society. I remember my parents not driving me at all and leaving me to do things in the way I liked. I was quite responsible, so I guess I didn't need anybody to give me a push. Anyways, these days are indeed quite different to a handful of decades ago.
Owww yea, the Ugle People Music are cool! No doubt about it 😉
Parents indeed are a big part of the problem creating little sociopaths because everything needs to shine for the outside world which causes them to work so much that the kids only get material compensation, and a lack of true interest and attention.
If I look outside my window there are parents taking their kids to a playground, but they don't play with them. Rather they sit on their phone or gossip with other parents.
I always played with my kid and their kids because it was more fun.
Well the world is gonna go to the klote anyway so better to enjoy it and increase global hapiness
OMG I am starting to become @edje with these crazy long comments, I have to bind them and make a post out it
😂😂😂 welcome to the club 😂😂😂