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Are people today more intellectual than emotional?? Is it good?
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Mar 12, 2014 12:28AM
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No I think it is actually a matter of selfishness. People are more aware of their own needs and desires than those of others.
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I don't think we are losing emotions, it's just that we choose not to express them...
If you study Hollywood movies from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s--you can see a whole other world of revealed, unabashed, openly-expressed emotions. Clear and voluminous evidence that emotions were much more part of the natural discourse of society in decades past, than they are today. Emotion was what movies were primarily about back then. Narratives were designed to furnish actors with material to bring out emotion; the best actors were those who were considered to emote convincingly; and the camerawork of the era frequently hovered only inches away from actors' faces, filling the screen with their expressions to an almost excruciating degree of intensity. In any given script, a male character could weep, cut-up silly, woo his girl, croon a song, dote on his mother, confess to his chaplain, apologize to his father, or embrace his buddy, without the stiffness and reserve we know today. It was a different--and I warrant--a much more mature world. Not to mention the emotion inherent to things like the Great Depression and two world wars consuming the globe--refugees, disasters, etc.
Meanwhile, today's America is dominated by youth culture; juvenile mindsets; immaturity. Dysfunctional families. Breakup of the nuclear family. People fleeing, drifting, leaving home, divorcing, abandoning, absent. Men can not hug each other. Machismo issues. Insecurity. The mania for being 'cool' instead of being 'authentic'. We all know how teenagers are too embarrassed to handle mature emotions without blushing, stammering, hands in their pockets, digging their toe in the carpet. This is who our cultural products are now generated for, however. The money is with them.
As for intellectualism...ha! Far from it. Loss in that quarter, as well.
I really like your writing style, Feliks...
Why thank'ee mighty kindly, miss. Me thankum you heap much.
