Originally Posted by SnowStorm86:
“Katie just seemed like she purposely doesn't want to be involved in any happiness. This isn't normal.”
"normal" is very normative.
professional jobs will rarely (other than the hipsters of shoreditch) want to huddle around in playgroup happy clappy fakeness. but a lot of people live in drone jobs where they have no pressures as long as they do what they are meant to..
katies world is about performing and being better in a competitive environment... and it wouldnt be "normal" to just accept "nothing in their heads" (unless they were performing a role well that they specialise in)
you are either hammer or anvil
you are either a leader or a follower
at primary school you start to see the ones who just want to "be" and the ones that can move things on.. and you have some who can "market" their image to appeal to the other camp to the one they naturally sit in... (which blurs the comprehension for some in identifying the types)...
if you see someone who has risen to the top of business or politics and they look to be "happy clappy its all nice, lets all be nice" then they are the ones who can blur their image to the suckers.. because to get where they have got they will have had to be hard and serious most of the time.
huxleys brave new world can be used to give a framework to look at the real world for what it is... the natural need to "belong" to a similar group and then to assume that that group is natural, the "normal" and the "right one" - the book of course suggests that is via conditioning... and of course our school system, the norms people grow up with in their direct community etc all add to that conditioning whether it was deliberate or not...
ps... huxleys book will also explain why some people will never accept this.
funnily enough the "elites" of the "bbc/guardian" rate huxleys book as one of the 100 must reads... and of course they will never be seen as "must reads" by the ones who would put katie price's books on their list... which then makes you see how good a framework for evaluating the structure of of communities it is