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Social Profiling

Saturday, January 19th, 2008 | Blog

I found a rather depressing quiz today that classified all women into three very specific groups. Those who are shy, those who don’t care, and those who are snobby. It was an insult to women every where. I don’t understand people’s fascination with it. (By it I mean personality quizzes and horoscopes) I enjoy quizzes as much as the next person, but yesterday, when I actually saw that quiz, it occurred to me that we humans have an uncanny obsession with hearing other people talking about us. Yes, inside, almost everyone wishes for the whole world to revolve around them! No one likes to admit it, it’s the human tendency to deny personal vanity when asked in the face, but while you’re reading this, deep down inside, you know it’s true! 

Horoscope is also the exact same thing. I know I am a zodiac fan too, but it does occur to me from time to time how absolutely silly all of it is. The formation of the stars cannot authenticate who we are. That is settled, scientifically, first, by our chromosomes, and then, the rest of our personalities are shaped by our upbringing and the society around us. What does stars have to do with it? But still, we love reading the horoscopes, and by doing that, we, in a way, become hypocrites. If a person is a Leo, they’re labeled as bossy and self-involved, if a person is a Scorpio, they’re labeled as sadistic and cynical, and if a person is a Sagittarius, they’re labeled as not serious and airy. Isn’t it the same as the hypocritical labeling that the entire world is giving Muslims as blood-thirsty terrorists?

Okay, okay, you’re right. It may not be exactly the same thing, but it’s in the same line, isn’t it? It may not be as drastic, but it’s similar all the same.

There are many people in this world who also have a tendency that I like to call the ‘Read and Believe Syndrome’. Yes, I do make up my own words and diseases. 

A person suffering from this condition believes so much in what they read in these personality quizzes and zodiac fore-telling, that they actually begin acting out these predictions. They, unconsciously, make them come true. And then, of cause their belief is hardened even more. What they don’t understand is that when they read these so-called predictions, their mind, unconsciously links this to any event that may even remotely be connected to the topic, and forces it to make sense. Why? Most of the time, only because you want to believe it bad enough that you’re mind has no choice but to come up with a logical explanation to prove it. And sometimes, the coincidental incidents they come up with are amended to suite the purpose, or simply made up entirely!

This is yet another example of how humans are obsessed with themselves…. when will we ever learn?

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