6/15/2007

To Preach and validate

Blogging has proven to be a bizzare sub surreal experience for me where I find myself living and communicating in an alternate reality: I spill out my guts to a bunch of complete strangers on the internet, and then wait anxiously to read their feedback on my personal life and innermost thoughts .

When you really sit back and suck in the implications of this interesting form of communication, you realize how pathetic and ridiculous this vain need for validation is.

But aye, the plot does thicken. Because out of the diverse group of readers/commenters of all over the world, ages, interests and what have you, there will always be some ragingly insecure loser with an impassioned need to validate HIMSELF at your expense by going through your archives, psychoanalyzing your personality and then telling you that you're wrong, you're perception is skewed, and takes considerable amount of time from his schedule to write you a lengthy email advising you how you should change your thinking:

"I have a feeling your opinions are based on skewed principles. I think you weigh much of your principles on their perceived application at certain cultures, for ideas/principles are pointless if they can’t be applied. From this, you should conclude two things: 1) if you’re going to compare cultures you must compare the results (application) of principles. 2) You must deal with factual/statistical realities rather than your limited exposure to certain layers of society. If you go through this exercise objectively, you’ll find that our culture doesn’t rate so bad, relatively speaking"

In my head, I am screaming "what the heck is he going off about"? So I read it over again and realized that this freak is criticizing my perception process. Its just too funny!
There are some people in this world that just love to preach. They preach to their siblings, they preach to their friends, they preach to their colleagues, and they preach to random strangers on the internet. The question is....why?

WHY?

What is accomplished by lecturing people that their way of thinking is wrong, and that your way is right? Does it, on a sick level, yield some sort of personal satisfaction? Does it validate one's own lifestlye and mentality for theirself? Does it reaffirm their own values when they see they have suceeded in imposing their perceptions on those that are supoosedly different? Why is there always a defined right and wrong...why can't it be whats right for you is right for you and whats right for me is right for me and lets both accept it and be blithe.