The sky is bleeding, we must fear the flood
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October 30, 2006Life has enough drama as it is but it seems people are innately attracted to it. Without it, life is boring. With it, life is miserable. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Now, that's dramatic. How else can you explain the unmatched popularity of soap operas. It's not like these tv shows have anything to offer in terms of values or will teach you how to deal with your problems. People just find it entertaining and probably pleasing that somebody's life could be so dramatic, and that they're not as miserable as they think they are. It's sort of a perverse kind of affirmation.
Affirmation is a wonderful thing. Because people don't have confidence, they need affirmation. When they get the amount of affirmation required, they get the confidence to do whatever it was they wanted to do. It also follows that the less confident you are about something, the more affirmation you require. It's simple. It's human nature to jump into the bandwagon, and there's certainly nothing wrong with it. Unless of course everyone on the bandwagon is wrong in the first place. Sort of like those animals that jump of a cliff to kill themselves - obviously if your friends started jumpin off a cliff you'd have to second guess what they were doing.
