Mimi wrote:
LaceSensor wrote:
Seeing as you havent already, its time to start grasping, as that concept is alive and well. Are you really that naive?! - note, genuine question, not trying to offend you.
You already said that I must be either a liar or deluded, now naive.
Well, maybe I like to think better of people, if this makes me deluded or naive then so be it. I'm no liar though.
As for what I think of myself, I do not think I am any of these things. I think that all people are generally good, and they admire a good nature in other people - I think we are drawn to it and appreciate it as a quality. I appreciate intelligence and a good nature, but I have known arrogant, nasty, self important intelligent people, just as I have known people that (though certainly not having been 'stupid') have been less intelligent bit nice, generous good natured and fun. I'd rather go out and spend time with the nice person, that's for sure. Looks, to me, don't come into it in either case. I am attracted to my other half because of the way he looks, but that was never a criterion of our friendship before our relationship. I liked his intelligence and friendliness, which are the things I like in all of my friends.
You, by watching and commenting on this show are a member of the 'dumbass public'. I do not think that the public are stupid. We are all the public.
Big Sigh.
I only stated those things if you qualified them, I didnt say you were a liar directly, or indeed naive or deluded. If you want to misinterpret me as slagging you off personally then thats fine, but thats not what I wrote at all. I gave a scenario in which if you expressed viewpoint X, you would embody personal trait Y - the fact you didnt negates any labelling you think I may have placed on you. Dont be so quick to rush to your own defence when I didnt even attack you. Besides, the Naive comment was a genuine question. I was looking for you to answer something like "yes I genuinely dont beleive people support chauvernistic morons just because they are hot". It was a genuine question. Why not reply to it rather than just biting back at me "calling you naive", when I didnt?
I admire your 'rose tinted' view of the world, I really do. I wish what you say was true and could be beleived, that all people are generally good - and perhaps this is going outside the scope of just Big Brother into philosophies on the world as a whole - but frankly I dont believe that is true at all.
Wrt the dumbass public comment, again you have misinterpreted my meaning - by that I mean people who get extremely into the show to the point of supporting (i.e. by paying to vote for) the contestants. I do not do that. I even said at the start of anythnig I wrote here that I dont even like Big Brother. The dumb ass public I described are those which 'celebrate vacuous, unintelligent wankers and their glorifiy them based on such traits'...I do not, therefore I am not.