The Audience Factor
This has been simmering inside for quite a while now.. Time to let it out.. Have been pondering over critical issues like: Why are the damn traffic lights always red when i reach them? Why are the pretty babes always in the next department and not in mine? and Why am i maintaining this blog?..The first two questions are deeper ones and need a lot more introspection.. I was attempting to unravel the mystery of the last question, when i remembered my room-mate's favourite theory, The "Audience factor theory". This theory can be best digested with a basic understanding of the "Matrix" trilogy.
The Audience factor theory(AFT), to put it in a nutshell, says we do a lot of things for the potential claps that we might get from the potential audience who might hear the story. Pop psychologists could equate this with the "need for acceptance/approval"(NFA) syndrome. But the AFT goes on the contrary direction of the NFA. Examples of NFA could be, sporting the clothes in fashion, wanting to be seen in the so-called trendy places, sporting the latest hair-style etc...Basically, "going with the crowd"...
AFT is the other piece in the puzzle...The character "Neo" in the movie, Matrix, is also a part of the program. He is designed specially to cater to the rebel elements in the human race who wish to play out their rebellious streak.. while 99.9% of the human race is content with the illusion of the matrix, there is still a .1% which does not fit into it.. therefore, the character "Neo" is introduced to lure these rebels into an illusion that they are actually outside the matrix.. But the joke is on the rebels, as they too are a part of the matrix..
Anyways, so much for my matrix saga. The point being, even so called non-conformists, who wear their heart on their sleeves about their non-conformism give it all away by falling prey to the "audience factor"...The need to relate to an audience..To tell a fellow human that "i'm rebelling" is also a sign of a need for approval at a different level...
The bottom line is that i am having this feeling that I might be actually choosing to experience this "Audience Factor".. Why else would i mail my friends the URL of this site and actually ask them to visit my site!?...Why else would i have a site-meter installed to check the page hits per day!?.. The attempted funny questions at the start of the post are also designed to draw some claps from the gallery!... Hypocrisy!!! Sheer hypocrisy!!... But i'm not disgusted with myself... I am happy to have discovered this quite early... And in a way, this post is a confession... No, a purgatory..
The Audience factor theory(AFT), to put it in a nutshell, says we do a lot of things for the potential claps that we might get from the potential audience who might hear the story. Pop psychologists could equate this with the "need for acceptance/approval"(NFA) syndrome. But the AFT goes on the contrary direction of the NFA. Examples of NFA could be, sporting the clothes in fashion, wanting to be seen in the so-called trendy places, sporting the latest hair-style etc...Basically, "going with the crowd"...
AFT is the other piece in the puzzle...The character "Neo" in the movie, Matrix, is also a part of the program. He is designed specially to cater to the rebel elements in the human race who wish to play out their rebellious streak.. while 99.9% of the human race is content with the illusion of the matrix, there is still a .1% which does not fit into it.. therefore, the character "Neo" is introduced to lure these rebels into an illusion that they are actually outside the matrix.. But the joke is on the rebels, as they too are a part of the matrix..
Anyways, so much for my matrix saga. The point being, even so called non-conformists, who wear their heart on their sleeves about their non-conformism give it all away by falling prey to the "audience factor"...The need to relate to an audience..To tell a fellow human that "i'm rebelling" is also a sign of a need for approval at a different level...
The bottom line is that i am having this feeling that I might be actually choosing to experience this "Audience Factor".. Why else would i mail my friends the URL of this site and actually ask them to visit my site!?...Why else would i have a site-meter installed to check the page hits per day!?.. The attempted funny questions at the start of the post are also designed to draw some claps from the gallery!... Hypocrisy!!! Sheer hypocrisy!!... But i'm not disgusted with myself... I am happy to have discovered this quite early... And in a way, this post is a confession... No, a purgatory..
posted by Raja at 10:45 AM
1 Comments:
CLAP CLAP CLAP!!!
Well, I was just reading ur blog, and what I read was quite similar to an update I did this morning to my own blog! I agree with the theories mentioned - AFT and NFA. It's only that some of us realise it and accept it, some just realise it but find it hard to accept it, and some just don't realise it...(now don't start relating my comment to the NFA theory...)
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