Thoughts from Vacation Part 2: Human Nature Pisses me Off
Human nature pisses me off. A lot. To start off, I have fairly good intuition. I can read people really well. To put a number to it (two actually) I would say I can accurately read 97 out of 100 people. It works great in business meetings, and it's very helpful when helping friends with relationship issues.
With business, I can usually tell when someone is trying to screw me. With relationships I can usually understand the friends' better half after listening to the complaints. Although biased, you can factor in the friend's current state of mind, split the difference and get a pretty good picture.
With this I offer my thoughts and advice. If they follow through with my advice, great. If they let my words get stuffed away into the Prefrontal Lobe and ignore the suggestions, thats cool. These people are intelligent, it's their own life, and it's their perogative to accept my suggestions.
But when against all linear logic, against all common sense, these people blindly ignore the hard truths of the situation, it boggles my mind. To use a metaphor, consider a woman who is beaten by her husband/boyfriend. She knows it is wrong, and she has been told countless times to leave him. But she never does. This seems to be a part of evolution that went awry.
When you are getting the sh*t kicked out of you, what do you do? You either fight, or get the hell out of Dodge as quickly as possible. but in the previous situation, the woman stays. She knows it is more logical to leave, but she doesn't. you gotta have one damn good reason to stay. The problem is, amongst many, many others, is that there exists an emotional bond between the two people.
This is the part of human nature that pisses me off. Our emotions have final say in our actions when compared to logic.
Freud's Id has failed us. I've studied psychology for a long time, and it still doesn't make sense. I've had psychologists explain it to me countless times, and it still doesn't make sense to me. I understand the subconscious processes involved, but I just can't understand why we have allowed ourselves to allow such things to occur. Evolution failed us on this one. Stuck it's thumb to nose and waved. Existential karma maybe?
Man human nature pisses me off.
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steve.syfuhs
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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