A world without patience
How ironic that we think that barbarians are a thing of the past! That the western is too violent to watch and war films are only for men who like the genre. The world today is so out of patience that violence has been present in our days as something normal, which barely affects some people.
An endless list of negative attitudes surrounds us: cancellations, lack of tolerance in politics and football, lack of tolerance with gender options, offenses against vegans, offense to police, a carnival of everything wrong. Not that my concepts are correct, but violent attitudes are so wide open that they border on the morbid, that kind of thing that makes us sick, literally.
Have you ever stopped to think that the famous pranks that go on television are usually a way to ridicule someone? People are subjected to ridiculous situations in order to stress and lose patience, creating a situation of stress and often violence, so that people can have fun. An extreme reaction is expected, showing when this fury fascinates us.
Currently the most powerful fights happen because of politics and because of social isolation (people in favor of the lockdown and people who just don't care). Confusions are everywhere: supermarkets, queues, hospitals, beaches, etc. It is a confusion without size, to the point of uniting the two disagreements, politics and the pandemic. Did you stop following friends and acquaintances because of one of these reasons? The posts were already excessive, the monothematic content, a true social activist? At least I have already silenced that person's notifications, for my sanity!
Our weapons of war today are virtual, and our most effective ammunition is words. Anyone who forgets that verbal violence can be as aggressive as physical violence is because it is not closely linked to the context of the current world. The great people's war has been between exchanges of offenses, public barbarity, networks and defamation. And no one escapes, from the president to the influencer, everyone can offend and be offended.
It looks like the tolerance is literally zero! We are still very frightened by physical assaults, by murders, by extremely violent cases. But we are already on the verge of normality when we face offenses against people on the networks. It is as if someone is chosen in a public square and placed on a stage to throw stones. And the stones are harsh words, usually in the third person, as if there was not the same one rejected there reading everything.
Do you feel that discomfort too? Or do you prefer to be part of who hit the stone? Or have you never stopped to analyze yourself? The popular wisdom is quite fair, and I heard these days from the host of a highly successful reality show saying something I thought was fantastic: “the one who does not stand and sit on the fence is taking the opportunity from those who are right”. Have you ever stopped to think about it?
An endless list of negative attitudes surrounds us: cancellations, lack of tolerance in politics and football, lack of tolerance with gender options, offenses against vegans, offense to police, a carnival of everything wrong. Not that my concepts are correct, but violent attitudes are so wide open that they border on the morbid, that kind of thing that makes us sick, literally.
Have you ever stopped to think that the famous pranks that go on television are usually a way to ridicule someone? People are subjected to ridiculous situations in order to stress and lose patience, creating a situation of stress and often violence, so that people can have fun. An extreme reaction is expected, showing when this fury fascinates us.
Currently the most powerful fights happen because of politics and because of social isolation (people in favor of the lockdown and people who just don't care). Confusions are everywhere: supermarkets, queues, hospitals, beaches, etc. It is a confusion without size, to the point of uniting the two disagreements, politics and the pandemic. Did you stop following friends and acquaintances because of one of these reasons? The posts were already excessive, the monothematic content, a true social activist? At least I have already silenced that person's notifications, for my sanity!
Our weapons of war today are virtual, and our most effective ammunition is words. Anyone who forgets that verbal violence can be as aggressive as physical violence is because it is not closely linked to the context of the current world. The great people's war has been between exchanges of offenses, public barbarity, networks and defamation. And no one escapes, from the president to the influencer, everyone can offend and be offended.
It looks like the tolerance is literally zero! We are still very frightened by physical assaults, by murders, by extremely violent cases. But we are already on the verge of normality when we face offenses against people on the networks. It is as if someone is chosen in a public square and placed on a stage to throw stones. And the stones are harsh words, usually in the third person, as if there was not the same one rejected there reading everything.
Do you feel that discomfort too? Or do you prefer to be part of who hit the stone? Or have you never stopped to analyze yourself? The popular wisdom is quite fair, and I heard these days from the host of a highly successful reality show saying something I thought was fantastic: “the one who does not stand and sit on the fence is taking the opportunity from those who are right”. Have you ever stopped to think about it?
Author : Mariana Goulart
Posted in: 04/05/2021
Last modified: 04/04/2021
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