Is modern society warping emotions ?

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It seems to me there is an element of society that is,perhaps unwittingly,allowing the value
of emotions to become warped.It used to be that strong feelings were mostly felt or displayed
in life-changing situations.Nowadays you can see the most extreme emotions on auditions
for The X Factor. Whereas people once felt a warm glow of achievement when gaining an
apprenticeship or degree,they now hear chants of 'Well Done!' and are sent into paroxysms
of joy at the random opening of boxes on a gameshow,followed by whooping and hollering and hugs and kisses from people they barely know.
I don't blame TV,in fact I find these shows entertaining,but these are examples of how society may be devaluing emotions.Even in workplaces,the work is incidental in between animated
and frank discussions about partners,offspring and feelings.
Those of us on the spectrum already find it difficult to understand interaction without being
even more bewildered at times by these extremes of behaviour!

Sometimes I wonder if people on those tv shows are selected because they are easy to excite and are really animated over it.

I *DO* blame TV! What you see on TV is NOT natural, but designed to play on your emotions.

Thanks to TV, people think "love" is that magical cloud9 feeling, then break up as soon as it's gone. Just like TV.

There's few/no consequences, like on TV.

Life is all about fun and pleasing yourself, like TV.

Etc.


It's all people really talk about, it's integrated into our very culture. What's popular on TV is the way a majoirty of people really act!

Totally. Rationalism is being surpressed.

And here I thought emotions had nothing to do with rationality. I guess the Vulcans were wrong?

Oh, completely. A purely rational being would not be able to make decisions at all. The sheer number of variables would leave it lagging sort of like a computer trying to work through a difficult program. We use emotions to make decisions, which can actually be seen from the difficulty that people with damaged emotional centers have with making decisions.

That is quite right. A person without feelings tends to make poor judgements. But rational thought suggests that one not simply follow whim. People who do that dont make very good decisions either.

I'm sticking with Mr. Spock. You guys can have your emotion fest somewhere else.

The thing that I can't stand is how NT females put on a fake laugh, after each sentence. The thing is that I'm also female.

The thing I like about this forum unlike NT forums is that I don't have to constantly worry about whether I am fitting in or pissing somebody off and I like that no one ever feels that MUS respond to a previous post in the thread with conventional expressions of any kind e.g. wow, that's terrible. This is the only place. I feel like I am on vacation.