Being Cool
Since the dawn of time people have thought things which were actually awful were cool; take Doctor House from super-popular TV show House M.D. for example—he’s an all around awful man who has got many a patient’s (and colleague’s) goat. Every day I run into people who seem to be just like Doctor House, and I wish I hadn’t. But on this forum someone asks the dreaded question: how can I be like House?
Another person suggests being brutally honest at all times! So could it be that people have been copying doctor House for some years? It seem entirely plausible to me–I seem to have met more than my fair share and they had to have come from somewhere.
I suppose the fact of the matter is that there is something very dull and mundane about people who have total inner peace. People who are struggling and having a hard time with life are so much more interesting to the general public; which might explain why the general public seem to think it’s really quite cool when talented musicians die at a young age, or artists go insane from being just too utterly brilliant. And, of course, it’s OK to love to hate someone like Doctor House, because he isn’t actually real. We can switch his grumpy antics off when we need a smiling face, or switch him on when everyone around us seems to be smiling and happy and we need to be assured that someone else is a bit down like us, too.
I really wouldn’t be surprised if courses started springing up in the future, training people to be just like Doctor House. That is, unless they already exist and I’ve not been paying attention.