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-But our what's new topic today is about the latest social disease. Who wants to start this off.?
-Well, you all know I do, okay.
-I know cuz you’ve...ready
-Go for it.
-Yeah. The media has been buzzing all week about entitlementia. You have seen the stories of rude behavior by a politician, a tennis star and a rapper. But girls my, rant is much more grassroots. I have been brewing for years over the decline in civility as a Montreal filmmaker John curtain labels it. At the risk of sounding offended, let me cite my two biggest pet peeves, the supermarket, the person in the aisle who is in their own private bubble as if they are the only one shopping. It’s them and their cart and that is all what exists, and then you go out to the parking lot, and the pedestrians are walking in their private bubble, as if nothing else is moving or using that space. Have you noticed in about the last decade, this kind of insensitivity. Take others around us.
-Well, I think its insensitivity, but I think it's that whole entitlement, like you said entitlementia.
-I am Here..
-I am here, it's all about me. So I will write on my facebook status what I'm doing. I will Twitter, and I'm I'm saying this because I'm speaking to myself, because I think people would like to hear what I do. So I think I write on Twitter what I am doing. I'm going to the grocery store and going into the parking lot, and there is a woman there who is offended by me. People want to know that. And so I think we have created
I believe as society and culture that is all about me, and that I am that important that people wanna what know what I do. And basically I can do anything I wanna do.
-Well, these are examples of rudeness that you're referring to that have been in the news in the past week. My son, my 20-year-old son called me to our computer few days ago and said “mom you've gotta see this” that he pulled up on youtube. I wasn't watching the MTV Awards Sunday night, but he pulled up on YouTube when Taylor Swift was giving her acceptance speech, and Connie West came and took the microphone from her and proceeded to steal her moment, really.
-And said basically it should gone to someone else.
-It should gone to Beyonce which I mean I do agree with that, however I...that's... that's not the point. He doesn't have a right.
-What makes him the authority to go up there and steal someone's moment. Like I could not...Can you imagine Taylor Swift going up on state and grabbing the mic from him and saying and doing what he...you know what I mean.. doing the exact same thing that he did. Like that's absolutely ridiculous. I mean there is...okay, whatever your idea is, your thoughts are on who should who deserve the award, at the end of the day there is a certain decorum that's expected when you're in public.
-There is a level of respect that a person earns when they receive an award, and all others say to them “We respect to the fact that you've worked hard and you are being rewarded for your hard work by receiving this award.” We will give your moment of acceptance and even if we don't agree, I don't know.
-And I think too. I think because it's it's been a week of this. So we've seen Connie West jump out the state on the MTV Video Awards and really hurt Taylor Swift. We’ve seen Serena Williams being rude to the linesman on the call and so inappropriately and to me was I rather disgusted at her outburst to them and actually swearing. And then you see Joe Wilson to President Obama in his healthcare speech saying you lie, so in one week.
-You lie.
-( laugh)
-You...
-I know...I know...Exactly, you like what...I mean... so it's the sense of I'm entitled to say or do whatever I want without any respect or any thought of the other person's feelings, and I think that is what making us so upset and angry.
-Because it’s self-restraint too. Even if they don't agree that this person received the award and someone else should have or you don't agree with the policies of the president, you have to use self-restraint and respect the office of the president, respect the form that you're in, and and really, you know don't just going on at the mouth if you don't agree with it.
-But, I feel we've created a culture, especially for young people, that is giving permission for them to react this way, because in these... if you've noticed Serene and a number of other people have blamed their passion of the sport, have blamed other people, have tried to justify this bad behavior, and what kinda message that giving to young people. Hey, do it and then you know.. ask for forgiveness or justify it by a means to blame somebody else or that you're passionate about something,
-Interesting, the filmmaker that I mentioned earlier cited many reasons, but increasingly stressful lives, busy lives, aggressive capitalism, and the biggest one isolating technology. You mentioned Twitter, people on their gadgets. It is distracting us and desensitizing us to real life humans.
-And you know what one of things that ...you know... with this whole booming social media that people are talking about is that there potentially might be a whole generation that has no people skills, because they don't talk to each other in person things. They talk to each other over the computer and let's be honest most people, when you're an anonymous, when you're a person hiding behind a screen, it's so much easier for you to be rude then you...if you...you know what I mean... just one of those situations where it's like..
-When you look in the eyes of someone...
-Exactly.
-I want to encourage folks at home, I am not going to read the whole verse cuz its long and it's not good news. Second Timothy chapter 3 verse 12 says that in the last days, people will be boastful, proud, abuseful, unholy, unforgiving, slanderous, without self control, treacherous, rash, conceded, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. There's so much more in that verse, but you read it and tell me if we're not seeing it today in too many ways.
-I think it's it's even like a call for me to take a moment, to take these few seconds to think when I say this how would other person feel, and if it was being done to me how would I feel. I think we need to take those moments to be responsible for our own actions and what we say and ...you know... for our viewers and even for us on the couch that that's something that we need to learn and to work on.
- Let our eyes that look out to others.
-That's right. Be other centered and about others.
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黄颖慧
2015-10-21 19:29:52
很好，感谢