That’s a question I never thought about, until some days ago, when I was reading through some web forums’ posts, and some random worried parent asked what was the deal with his son playing video-games so much. I was curious about the question, so I kept digging, and found tons of other parents complaining about how their children are not going out as they used to, how they spend most of their time online, or on console games…
Well, I just started wondering, and came up with a few answers to that question…
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Sometimes when we try to look forward, to think in what will happen just to plan an action ahead of time —say, guessing someone is going to ask you about your black eye after a fight— we think too little about the real possibilities. In a case when we ask something and foresee a possible answer, for example, we usually just think of one or two answers, and if you’re following this thought: there are thousands.
Thousands of possibilities, and yet some have more probability to be, to happen, than others. The funny thing, of course, is that we believe we have some sort of magic power to guess right those probabilities.
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I talked in a past article on how inside-jokes work, and how they help building relationships, as individuals, or groups. I also highlighted the fact that there’s no need for them to be jokes, rather than plain knowledge. Specially if that knowledge brings you some kind of emotion: sharing that emotion with someone else, and only with that person/group will give you the same feeling the knowledge gives you, plus the feeling of getting closer to someone thanks to the sense of exclusiveness the knowledge has created.
Now, take that to a greater scale and what do we have? Entire societies based on the existence of that knowledge.
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When we think of stereotypes we think of general stereotypes like “asians are smart”, “blacks are thieves” or “irish are alcoholics” (I’m sorry if this insults somebody, but it’s a fact that those are stereotypes built years ago and well-known around the world). In the end, it’s impossible for that to be truth as we’re all different people. Are you the same as “your kind”? There’s no kind, We are just born as we are.
This racism thing has been around since… always! And I hate it. But I have to say that there is a reason behind all that. Several, actually. The historic reason is that thousand of years ago groups were formed, and with time those group differentiated themselves from others and some rivalry started. With centuries we begin to talk about civilizations. Wars are mostly caused by this, or something derived from it. People don’t like “others”, and sometimes that turns into hate.
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I don’t know if it’s a well-known fact —or if it’s a fact at all— that inside-jokes help a lot in build a relationship with anybody. Friends, colleagues, even people you like in a “couple” way, as far as I know, feel closer to you when you can establish a joke only the two —or few— of you understand (few, if you’re a group of people, in such a case people feel closer to the group, and not anyone specifically).
I don’t know the reason, and I don’t want to discuss it here. What I want to do instead is to relate this condition to a different angle. What if it doesn’t have to be a joke, but some sort of knowledge piece?
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The thought of being capable of managing my own knowledge have always been present, in some way. It was, in fact, one of the main reasons I started this blog: I wanted to store my ideas, yes, but I wanted some place to store everything created from the development of such ideas. I was starting to store part, a little part, of my knowledge on a moleskine notebook. But it was all based on this blog’s theme: people, behavior, psychology.
The rest of my mind have been kept in, figuring a way out through notes apps, sketches, photos, all stored in different places, even physically and virtually speaking. I wasn’t even near an answer until I found out about the concept of “Personal Wiki“.
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Welcome 2013, even if it’s late… After a year of blogging about life-related thoughts, I can say I’ve read through a lot of articles, forums, and other discussion sites regarding questions about other people. Parents asking why their children are ding something too much, teens asking why their best friend doesn’t talk to them anymore; people asking why other people act like that and people answering such questions.
My only thought at the time of reading any of does things is “Are you even a psychologist? A student in psychology at least?“… Then I think of something truly more important, “You don’t even know the person!“. Really. Sometimes reading all that you get the idea that not only a two sentence answer to a question like those is enough, but that, consequently, people are just that simple.
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