For instance, when meeting people, we impose an instant personality on a subject to make it easier on ourselves to grasp the environment. Humans are creatures that require familiarity, so they use stereotypes, some that may be unconscious to them. Here's an example:
The UFO/alien abductee: in our society, this person is presented as a white trash hick from West Virginia living in a trailer ~OR~ a white male nerd with no friends who is addicted to the computer, books, and Star Trek.
The conspiracy theorist: they are represented as a psychotic, scarey, schizo person who believes anything and everything is against them, also see Nerd desription above.
The sensitive person with problems: Usually represented as a white lower middle class girl who is somewhat psycho with scraggly hair, and who writes in her journal fervently and has few friends. Go see the movie "Girl, Interrupted" which made me want to puke.
THESE UNCONSCIOUS STEREOTYPES ARE DESIGNED TO KEEP YOU AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE IN SOCIETY WHO ARE DIFFERENT!! WE HAVE ALREADY ACCEPTED "MINORITIES," BUT THEY DON'T QUESTION ANYTHING. THESE PEOPLE DO. THEY ARE DANGEROUS TO THE SAFE LITTLE SOCIETY CREATED FOR YOU TO STOP THINKING!?
by Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I could not bring
My passions from a common spring -
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow - I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone -
And all I lov'd - I lov'd alone-
Then -in my childhood - in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still-
From the torrent, or the fountain-
From the red cliff of the mountain-
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold-
From the lightening in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by-
From the thunder, and the storm-
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view-
(1829)
in the depths of isolation
trying to wake from this daydream of illusion.
-Dream Theater, "Misunderstood"
Wide awake you face the day.
Your dream is over,
or has it just begun?
-Queensryche, "Silent Lucidity"
-Edgar Allan Poe
-Brian Herbert
-Brian Herbert
