Yesterday was an opportune lecture I attended. The lecture (the word doesn’t communicate remotely the fun it is) grazed over a bit about the funda of socionomics. Now, I won’t delve into the details of socionomics, not that I am even remotely qualified to. Though, one of the correlations that socionomics tried to find out was if there was a relation between the kind of movies that are made in a era and the socio-economic mood prevalent at that time. Amazingly enough, the study also found some correlation between kind of movies produced and the length of skirt. (I am really waiting for some good times to arrive ;) ).
Now, why am I telling about this theory of socionomics? Well, primarily because that is a bit related to the theme of this entry. We have arrived at the part of “WHEN”. Is there a specific time frame when people like to watch movies of a typical kind? More specifically, is there a particular kind of prevalent mental state when one wants to watch a movie depicting extreme torturous scene?
This is one of the part of this series entry about which I am not as sure as the others. Primarily because whatever idea I have is just mine and based on what I think and feel. For other parts of the series about which I have written and will write, I have the inputs from few people I have discussed the things with. But, for this one, there is no clear input. Anyways, I hope to find a direction in the vagueness that I am about to enter.
I believe that given the right circumstances, everything is possible. Quoting a dialogue from a movie (don’t remember which), “Everything has a cost”. The cost can be paid sometimes in terms of money, sometimes in terms of love and so on. And circumstances have a much bigger part to play in what we pay and are paid for. So, what is the point of it? The point is another question. And the question is “Have you ever felt like killing someone?” Has there been a time when you felt like going all out and hit someone very hard or even to kill him/her?
For me, the answer to the above question is “Yes”. Yes, I have felt like that at couple of times. And in one of these rare times, I had quoted to my friend, “It’s good that gun is not readily available to us”. I am sure that other people also would have felt like that at some point of their life. And it’s good for us that we people have some sort of control mechanism which allows us not to be just barbarians and revenge-seekers. But how do we all control ourselves? If given a choice of controlling yourself by watching a movie, what sort of movie will you choose to watch at such a time? Will it be a comedy to soothe down your anger? Will it be a romantic one to get you thinking about happy times? Or is there a possibility of watching a cruel movie which may depict how cruel you want to be?
I guess I have been very vague in this entry. And perhaps I can’t help it either. There is so much to write and yet an unclear cloud over it. So, let me just try and gather my thoughts more concretely for a bit before I complete this sub-topic with a continuation, and meanwhile you can let me know the answers to the questions I asked.
Now, why am I telling about this theory of socionomics? Well, primarily because that is a bit related to the theme of this entry. We have arrived at the part of “WHEN”. Is there a specific time frame when people like to watch movies of a typical kind? More specifically, is there a particular kind of prevalent mental state when one wants to watch a movie depicting extreme torturous scene?
This is one of the part of this series entry about which I am not as sure as the others. Primarily because whatever idea I have is just mine and based on what I think and feel. For other parts of the series about which I have written and will write, I have the inputs from few people I have discussed the things with. But, for this one, there is no clear input. Anyways, I hope to find a direction in the vagueness that I am about to enter.
I believe that given the right circumstances, everything is possible. Quoting a dialogue from a movie (don’t remember which), “Everything has a cost”. The cost can be paid sometimes in terms of money, sometimes in terms of love and so on. And circumstances have a much bigger part to play in what we pay and are paid for. So, what is the point of it? The point is another question. And the question is “Have you ever felt like killing someone?” Has there been a time when you felt like going all out and hit someone very hard or even to kill him/her?
For me, the answer to the above question is “Yes”. Yes, I have felt like that at couple of times. And in one of these rare times, I had quoted to my friend, “It’s good that gun is not readily available to us”. I am sure that other people also would have felt like that at some point of their life. And it’s good for us that we people have some sort of control mechanism which allows us not to be just barbarians and revenge-seekers. But how do we all control ourselves? If given a choice of controlling yourself by watching a movie, what sort of movie will you choose to watch at such a time? Will it be a comedy to soothe down your anger? Will it be a romantic one to get you thinking about happy times? Or is there a possibility of watching a cruel movie which may depict how cruel you want to be?
I guess I have been very vague in this entry. And perhaps I can’t help it either. There is so much to write and yet an unclear cloud over it. So, let me just try and gather my thoughts more concretely for a bit before I complete this sub-topic with a continuation, and meanwhile you can let me know the answers to the questions I asked.
5 comments:
It will be interesting to know the correlation between length of skirt and movies. Do let me know when u get hang of this socioeconomic data ;).
To some extent I am sure that you'll not get any data or inputs for the time frame and kind of movies being discussed in your blog. This is coz ppl watching the movie and even making it are afraid of commenting. My comment is vague though i somehow believe this.
I guess everyone had thought of murdering someone at some point or the other but that's due to a sudden gust of emotions or circumstances. There are certainly exceptions to these but murdering requires guts and am damn sure that 99.99% ppl who had thoughts of murdering didn't have guts to do that. Now some can argue that it's rationale rather than guts, for me both are correlated.
Ad u rightly said that guns are not easily available otherwise the a lot of us would have been prey to our sudden burst of emotions and to some extent circumstances.
It is true that the length of the skirt has decreased with time. However, I think it has now reached its asymptotic minimum. Any further decrease and we would not be talking about the skirt anymore.
Boys will be boys, isn't it? :)
Will write more on the correlation between skirt length and economic state later, perhaps much later. Meanwhile, if you guys wanna see it for yourself, you can go to www.socionomics.net and do some research.
And Beetle, I agree that people don't have guts to kill someone. but I won't like to think that it's largely because of guts factor. I like to believe that we are rational people. Atleast, we have developed into one. And though the development is not complete, but it is still good enough that we can control ourselves. Maybe not everyone, but atleast majority of us. Let's say, for example, there certainly is a difference in a way you vented out your anger when you were a kid and the way you vent it out now. A kid, when angry can go ahead and kill insects or ants but once he/she starts growing, he starts controling the anger by himself rather than going after weaker creatures. I know the example is not at all comprehensive but I am partial to humans. :P
My fav way to control my anger is -reading blogs. And if it has to be a movie - I prefer watchign some sensible and serious movie - something sensible enuff to bring me back to my senses.
And though i can be cruel using my words ... umm, and destroying the concerned persons beloved things .. ummm , well , i guess thats it.. If it is a person that i can afford to hurt ( u for example :P), i might resort to hitting too ...
lol , i hope i don get into my cruel moods .. not that they are cruel by ur standard, but anyways :P ..
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