Fundamental Attribution Error
I've been thinking very hard about people that you simply don't like, people that irritate you to no end, or that you just don't like. I always thought those people embodied a trait inside of yourself that you don't like. What I think now is that those people are dangerous in their passive-aggressive confrontational behavior. Every moment when they interact with someone, no matter what the nature of the interaction, the interaction becomes an event, a spectacle, a potential to illicit sympathy like a wounded dog instead of an interaction. I used to be like this, in fact I think everyone has, but people eventually grow out of it. Sometimes, this behavior is found in the way passive-aggressive people structure sentences. Participles abound, subjects abound, gerunds take root, and "quotes" are used in place of any meaningful dialogue.
Hypocrisy is made even more apparent when a hypocrite points it out, in a fundamental errorlike a ten year old who points out every damn car on a freeway when they are riding in one.
I've been thinking very hard about people that you simply don't like, people that irritate you to no end, or that you just don't like. I always thought those people embodied a trait inside of yourself that you don't like. What I think now is that those people are dangerous in their passive-aggressive confrontational behavior. Every moment when they interact with someone, no matter what the nature of the interaction, the interaction becomes an event, a spectacle, a potential to illicit sympathy like a wounded dog instead of an interaction. I used to be like this, in fact I think everyone has, but people eventually grow out of it. Sometimes, this behavior is found in the way passive-aggressive people structure sentences. Participles abound, subjects abound, gerunds take root, and "quotes" are used in place of any meaningful dialogue.
Hypocrisy is made even more apparent when a hypocrite points it out, in a fundamental errorlike a ten year old who points out every damn car on a freeway when they are riding in one.
legionnaire:
I find myself less and less actively disliking people, and more and more just feeling sorry for them. So much of people acting like assholes is active overcompensation for some fault they perceive in themselves. A little bit more self-assurance and they probably wouldn't even bother.