--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" wrote: > > Ha. Funny scenario discovered on the Internet. You've heard of the movie > "Snakes On A Plane?" Well, this is "FFL It's All About Me Behavior On A > Plane." :-) > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/29/annoying-airplane-passenger_n_4\ 360667.html <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/29/annoying-airplane-passenger_n_\ 4360667.html> > > Doesn't Diane remind you of anyone, how she wants the world to revolve > around her and work the way *she* wants it to work? :-)
This minor Twitter-war has now gone viral, and it's interesting to see different people's reactions to it. By far the majority (close to 80% on the sites I've seen it on) side with Elon. That said, many of them feel that he went over the top in his interactions with beyond-cluelessly-out-of-it Diane. I tend to agree on both fronts -- that he was justified in trying to wake her up to how ridiculously and discourteously she was acting, and that he chose a possibly inappropriate way to do so. And yet, speaking as one who has resorted to such tactics myself, sometimes they seem necessary. The self-centered solipsist is SO lost in his or her head, and SO overshadowed by his or her own petty concerns that there is no ROOM in their awareness for other people, and how their actions may be affecting these others. Once one has tried more subtle methods, and failed, sometimes the ONLY thing that can get to such people is to reveal to them *exactly* how laughable and petty and inconsiderate they're acting by getting as many people as possible to laugh at them. The one thing most solipsists cannot abide is being laughed at, and it's often the one thing -- and only thing -- that can get them to STFU. Clearly this didn't work on Diane, and chances are it never will. From her point of view, lost in her own self-importance, she'll view the fact that now tens of thousands of people are laughing at her as a HUGE affront, as UNFAIR, and above all, as UNDESERVED. All of these people laughing at her are WRONG, damnit, and only *she* is RIGHT, damnit! My bet is that Diane didn't learn a damned thing from the incident itself, won't learn a damned thing from how she is regarded (as a selfish loon) by tens of thousands of people, and will probably act the SAME way on the plane home. This would not surprise me in the least, because of course I've seen the same thing on FFL. What does surprise me a little, however, are the few who seem to view *Diane* as their hero in this scenario. They see nothing whatsoever wrong with her histrionics and her out-of-control anger over a situation *that she could not possibly affect in any way* by bitching and melting down in public and becoming angry and making everyone around her miserable. Her "supporters" seem to "side with her" because that's the way they live THEIR lives. The world revolves around them, just as Diane feels that the world centers around her. Someday I hope that this 20% and Diane find themselves on the same plane together, and can make *each other* miserable with their histrionics. They won't learn from THAT, either, but at least they'll have a taste of what their behavior *feels like* to those forced to experience it. Similarly, wouldn't it be interesting to be a fly on the wall (over video, so we didn't have to be subjected to the low-vibeness of it all) when several "Diane's" from FFL were strapped into a plane together, with *none* of their regular "enemies" anywhere around. My bet is that it would take less than 15 minutes before they were at each others' throats, and blaming *each other* for the things they usually blame on people not in their clique. With any luck, someone could overhear the resulting cat fight, capture it all verbatim, and broadcast it to the world via Twitter. Maybe then they'd realize how ridiculous they are. Maybe.
