Is There Anything that People Won’t Complain About? Redux
You may remember this post from April 7th of this year: “Is There Anything that People Won’t Complain About?”
Since that is exactly how I am feeling right now, I am going to repeat it.
You know, for effect.
And because I was going to write something else, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt like this older post and why rehash it when I can just copy and paste it? Like this…
Seriously. Anything? Especially online?
I’ve seen comments lately (and long before lately too) from people that complain about things that really don’t have the slightest bit of anything to do with them. I’m not talking about any place specifically; I’m talking about a number of sites I visit online.
It’s like if I painted a room in my house green. It’s one thing to say that you prefer blue or that you would have painted it white with green accents. There’s no real issue if you want to express your opinion.
It’s if you want to complain, and bitterly complain, that I painted a room green because you think I should have painted it ochre. Or to complain that I painted the room at all because I should get new carpeting. Or whatever.
Especially if you’ve never been to my house, you haven’t loaned me money for the paint or paint brush and you’ve really had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with my house, my room or my painting of the room green.
It’s like there are people that live to complain about things.
The real problem is that this sort of attitude permeates our society. And the complainers are often the loudest voices while they are also often the most irrational. And then, if you complain about the complainers, you’re labeled no better than them.
Except the difference is that while their gripe was illegitimate because what you did had nothing to do with them, your gripe is perfectly legitimate because their complaining may be hurting you. But, now you’re the bad guy.
And that’s because the chronic complainers get the attention. They’ll write letters. They’ll annoy people. Then there will be people that will step up and lend legitimacy to the complainers by arguing that, though some of them may be extreme, it’s perfectly reasonable to argue that painting a room in ochre is a better choice than green because it brightens the place up better.
And that makes people happier, which makes them more productive, which makes things better for society.
And, studies released by the paint companies that sell ochre paint confirm those findings.
And then the politicians decide that no one should paint their rooms green and that they should be painted ochre.
And then soon all of us are painting our rooms ochre because of a few complainers that had nothing better to do than to complain about something that didn’t affect them at all to begin with.
Well, that was an easy post. And I feel better now. Sort of. Had too much to eat for supper, so I’m still feeling kind of stuffed. Went to Five Guys Burgers and Fries. Got a “regular” order of cajun fries. Which looked like a small order of fries. Which turned out to be a rather large looking cup of fries which was overfilled, and overflowing into a larger brown bag. So, there was a lot of fries. A lot of fries. And, you know, I can’t waste food. I had to eat the fries. I had to bring the brown bag home and finish the fries. There were a lot of fries. Did I mention the fries?
Yes, I did have fries with that.
Am I complaining? Um, no. Just saying it was a lot of fries.
A lot of fries.
It bears repeating.
A lot of fries.
Until next time,
Believe. Act. Eat Fries!
Alot of fries is never a bad thing, they taste so good! Been to Five Guys Burgers before, it’s definitely one of the best burger joints around! As far as the post is concerned, it’s one of those deals in my opinion where the internet environment itself, and the anonymity of it, makes it so that the complains escalate to a more than normal level