More often, people want to act with a
positive emotion. We can find well-being when we are happy. But negative feelings
appear on our face from time to time. We don’t know exactly where they come
from and how they disappear like a spirit. One thing ensured is that they exist
in the world all the time. Andrew Sullivan had a quite deep discussion about
one of the negative emotion, hate, in his What’s So Bad About Hate (1999).
One
opinion in this article appeals to me very much, talking that sexism is a narcissistic
hate and why. Let’s consider sexism is a narcissistic hate from the
time being. But Sullivan deemed that men’s narcissism behaves as ignorance,
condescending and unawareness. Don’t you think the statement a little
ambivalent? What is narcissism? Like a girl standing in front of her mirror,
checking herself carefully and finally saying “I’m beautiful.”? Or like a top
student thinking he/she is the most intelligent student in his/her class and no
other classmate can exceed him/her? What is men’s narcissism supposed to be? “We
men are the most powerful being on the earth. We have pure and excellent
bloodlines with unique genes. Woman can only be servants, cleaning and cooking.”
This is supposed to be a classic claim for men. While we can see men sometimes is
fear of building such imaginary before women in Sullivan’s analysis. They
choose to ignore women because they think it is shaming if they cannot
implement a specific “mission”. It could be very depressing and burdensome.
Some men can’t bear such suffering and therefore is unaware of women. Then such
concern is just concern and looking for a way out, condescending for example. In
this respect, I would like to consider sexism as a hysterical hate. As Sullivan
stated, the generation of hate is caused by something and most of the time a hate
cannot be simply ranged in a specific kind.
Hate
has been talked about a lot from the very beginning of human history. It’s
really bad sometimes and can cause critical results. But I think another
emotion should also be highly paid attention to in the modern world. It is melancholy.
Why? As various technologies and industries have highly developed from last
century, the world has been fulfilled with a lot of material products and our
minds have also been materialized more or less. One hand, it become easier for
us to acquire stuff what we want, the other hand, we are driven by our endless
physical and metal desire. People are easy to get down for failing to gain something.
Though predecessors’ lives may not be as splendid as ours, we are envious of
their pure happiness at times. Sometimes there is not a clear cause or reason,
people just get dejected. It seems that the kind of emotion is becoming one of
our habits. How could a life last long without vitality? What it can involve
may astound us much more, depression, suicide, cancer and so on. Each of them
hurt us deeper than a physical wound does.
If
human can overcome cancers soon, then what’s next human “cancer”? Will the new
cancer still exist simply in the human beings’ cells? Will it still be visible?
Could it arise from our brain, our mind? Could it be easily healed by pills or
operations? Metal diseases are much more complicated than we thought. But human
want to multiply. Human beings are social. It can be very important for us to
learn about our feelings, affections, moods, emotions and group characteristics.
It could be very interesting and magical to do research on ourselves.
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