Friday, 17 January 2014
Short informal discourse on the imbalance of individual abilities in social constructs and its effects
Actually I get what Aomine feels, to some extent. At the beginning, maybe you're weak or on par with everybody else. So you stray away and become stronger on your own so when you get back, you will be able to contribute to the team. But then you become stronger than the rest of them that the group becomes imbalanced which pretty much fucks up the dynamics. The group loses its feel. The social bonds you have are severed. You lose your motivation. You hate weak people. So you work on your own to keep them from dragging you down. So deep inside, you frantically search for people who can relate to your situation. But those people are actually difficult to find inside your current niche and community. It's disappointing. Unless your line of work is physical in nature, let's consider people like them in our field. We should all strive to be stronger. This is phenomenon is alienation. This is marginalization. You might argue that you're not even doing anything to alienate them. But that's exactly it: you're not doing anything. When you can't relate to what they are trying to express (or explain, in the academia), the distance between you are drastically increased and the bonds are thinned or cut, if they even exist in the first place. The gap will just go wider and wider since they have no choice but to get stronger. Growth occurs even you do anything, but they did extra effort initially to rapidly and dramatically accelerate that process. Now they are no longer trying. They are just hovering there at the top. If they try, the gap will just grow wider. If they train or practice, like Aomine said, there will be less chance that people will catch up. They may go tsundere and say that it doesn't matter, 'cause they will just crush all the weaklings that step up, but humans are still social animals. They crave attention, warmth and interaction. And being at the top is very lonely. "The power of the king will condemn you to isolation." That's what CC said. They just wanted to change the world. To improve their workplace. To act as boosters to launch their organizations to greater heights. But what do they get in return? Cold relationships. Cold stares. Cold conversations. Because the other people are virtually enfeebled in their presence. Now I understand how "that guy" felt. It must have been so agitating to have us weaklings as group mates. You might also say that, well, they are just born talented. TALENT IS A BIG ILLUSION. There is only an optimum path to development. People who have followed that path early in their lives have been called talented, prodigies, or even geniuses to some extent. But they don't have to be isolated. We just have to be stronger. Make an effort to be stronger. They try to understand us, but they're thinking has been bumped up to a higher level of abstraction that it already is difficult to express their thoughts, theories and concepts concretely. We just need to have to this state of mind that will motivate us to be stronger. We are responsible for these people. Unless you're some cold-blooded bastard, do them and yourselves a favor and be more productive. Or mother nature will go evolution on you and weed your genes out of existence.
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