Quizzes and polls “determine” how sexy you are. They also determine how smart you are or how much of a movie star you are and which one you resemble, or which celebrity should you marry, LOL. Well, they even tell you how gay you are, and in percentages, too.
Your character and also your values are supposedly determined by how you fare in these polls or quizzes!Check these examples:
Am I hot or not?
Am I annoying or not?
Which Shakespearean character would you be?
What element are you?
Are you in love?
How intelligent are you?
This is not spoof or a turn-on. It is supposedly real life humor between euphoria and cruelty dependent on our individual perspectives.When we’re not bombarded by polls and quizzes, we’re bombarded with groups! ;) With names so funny or so pathetic that you are yourself ONLY if you are a part of some group! You don’t have any identity without one! “Did you join THAT one? Oh, you haven’t!” and you get a look of disdain as if you’re from some alien planet or seriously retarded.
The premise is simple. Humans post photographs of themselves online, inviting a netizen’s assessment of the subjects' “hot factor” or “cool factor”. Each viewer awards points to each participant or nominates their participant. Running tallies reveal consensus scores somewhere between cheery adoration and cringing rejection. Some even go to the extent of endorsing their co-netizens to “vote” for them, LOL! This happens. Trust me, I am a willing participant in all this. I have seen it happen. Been there, done that!
Soon, it becomes a mish mash of warped out false egos instead of what it was intended for in the first place – perhaps as a marketing or a PR tool……
Why anyone would voluntarily open himself or herself to such potential low self-esteem is the fascinating puzzle at the root of this human behavior?
Along the way, do we experience discovery regarding how our judgmental criteria of beauty and intelligence rank alongside strangers? More disturbing, perhaps, is what the experience says about our concept of “sensual superiority” and our pitching into cold-hearted observation of scandal.
Today, a poll has taken the place of a simple human thought process. It keeps us smug in a dream world where we thrive on our low self-esteem that’s propped up by someone else’s “ego boost” It gives us the perfect tool for evasion: shrugging off responsibility because the majority has already “voted” for something and THAT has become “reality.” We are thus free to shrug off the responsibility of action and decision, because someone somewhere has already done that for us.The aim is: ZOMBIFY YOURSELF!
So it has come to pass that polls “CREATE reality”.
But can reality really “be created”? Let’s have a POLL on this!! :D:D:D:D
