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> Selfish nastiness is all the rage, but research shows that pleasant behavior leads to more success and happiness in life What does the first part of the sent
by sotojuan 10y ago
> Selfish nastiness is all the rage, but research shows that pleasant behavior leads to more success and happiness in life
What does the first part of the sentence mean? Where is "selfish nastiness" considered good? Even on social media the jerks are either blocked, ignored, or waste time in silly arguments. If people are rude in the media, it's because watching people be nice all day isn't very fun.
- zdw 10y agoIf it comes to politics or talk radio, if you agree with the jerks position and enjoy them railing against and lampooning the opposition, they appear to be able to do well. One person's silly comedy can be another persons vicious behavior.
- coldtea 10y ago>What does the first part of the sentence mean? Where is "selfish nastiness" considered good? In political candidates with strange hairdos who attract a huge majority of the population, in fictional pop heroes like Dr. Gregory House, in actual pop heroes like Kanye West and numerous other places besides...
- kristianc 10y agoThat sounds like availability bias. By their nature, quiet, good natured, meek people are less likely to stand out. Not criticizing you, but the premise that 'selfish nastiness' is both prevalent, or any more prevalent than it was.
- fjh 10y agoHouse is basically a modern interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, with the same unpleasant personality. Which seems to contradict the idea that jerk protagonists are a new phenomenon.
- adrianratnapala 10y agoI didn't notice that House and Holmes were supposed to be unpleasant people.
- antisthenes 10y agoAre you sure you were watching the same shows? It's about House MD, the doctor and Sherlock, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Their unpleasantness is a key part of their respective shows, to the point of being a major plot driver in some cases.
- photogrammetry 10y agoSherlock the Cumberbatch character and Sherlock the Arthur Conan Doyle character are quite different, and House is definitely not derived from the Cumberbatch character (simply because that would mean the scriptwriters were time-travelers).
- coldtea 10y agoBack to our topic though, the two modern characters, Cumberbatch's Sherlock and House are both arrogant and nasty (yeah, with a "damaged" core underneath). The original Sherlock wasn't like House but in the more broad sense. E.g. he didn't sadistically play games with his underlings (which he didn't much have) and Watson. He also wasn't about "blunt truth" and other such things House was.
- hilop 10y agoClassic Holmes is not unpleasant. Modern Holmes is imitating House -- "life imitating art imitating life" sort of thing
- dragonwriter 10y ago> In political candidates with strange hairdos who attract a huge majority of the population Such as? (I can think of relecat, current examples if you said "a significant minority of the population", but I'm having more trouble with examples that fit the "huge majority" description.)
- bitwize 10y agoBecause Trump is running for President and GamerGate is a thing, I guess.
- oldmanjay 10y agoWhen you're involved in modern journalism, the apparent first thing they teach you is to exaggerate in the service of emotional resonance to manipulate your audience into agreeing with your fact-free premise to follow.
- hilop 10y ago"modern", but also classical.