Spambot of the day
Here’s some spambot wit:
This site is so cool even ice cubes would be jealous.
Don’t mean to be pedantic, but I think the bot actually means “envious.” Those two words are all-too-often mixed up, a pet peeve of mine.
The distinction is explained here:
Jealousy involves three parties, the subject, the rival, and the beloved; and the jealous person’s real locus of concern is the beloved””the person whose affection he is losing or fears losing””not his rival. Whereas envy is a two party relation, with a third relatum that is a good (albeit a good that could be a particular person’s affections); and the envious person’s locus of concern is the rival. Hence, even if the good that the rival has is the affection of another person, there is a difference between envy and jealousy. Roughly, for the jealous person the rival is fungible and the beloved is not fungible. So he would be equally bothered if the beloved were consorting with someone else, and would not be bothered if the rival were. Whereas in envy it is the other way around. Because envy is centrally focused on competition with the rival, the subject might well be equally bothered if the rival were consorting with a different (appealing) person, but would not be bothered if the ”˜good’ had gone to someone else (with whom the subject was not in competition).
The distinction between jealousy and envy is important, since the latter is so much more destructive in human affairs beyond and more significant than in romantic incidences. Not that envy doesn’t operate there, too.
Some writer said “envy has destroyed more marriages than jealousy ever thought of doing.”
(And thanks for the link.)
Perhaps more succinctly:
I am envious of your relationship with YOUR girlfriend.
I am jealous of your relationship with MY girlfriend.
The former is a matter of desiring what another has, based in covetousness.
The latter is a matter of fearing the loss of what you already have, based in insecurity.
It’s easier to pronounce ‘jealous’ than ‘envious’.
Igot, I disagree. Both jealousy and envy can occur with the same rival and good. If you have a beautiful girlfriend I might say, “Oh, wow! I wish I had a girlfriend like that! I’m so jealous!” On the other hand, if I said, “Who are you to deserve such a girlfriend? You aren’t so special.”, I would be envious.
Jealousy is much less harmful. It can lead to envy, certainly, but it can also motivate one to achieve that which you admire. Nobody decries politics of jealousy. It’s politics of envy that is scary.
When you fervently covet what someone else has you are stepping onto the path that leads to the land of evil intentions. ‘Liberals’ promote class warfare (envy). Therefore, they promote evil. (Caveat: most ‘Liberals’ have little awareness of what they actually promote. Its 95% blind, kool-aid drinking, running dog lackey dogma.)
For liberals, enviousness is fairness. If we think about it, postmodern liberalism has probably deconstructed and given pleasant sounding names to all the deadly sins.
“The distinction between jealousy and envy is important, since the latter is so much more destructive in human affairs beyond and more significant than in romantic incidences. Not that envy doesn’t operate there, too.”
The former, not the latter. Another one of those pet peeves.
Jealousy is normally a negative and self-destructive emotion as well as being societally inefficient. It generates motivation not to better one self or one’s society of friends, but to tear things apart.
Envy on the other hand is often wise a positive motivator as it forces people to mimic what they admire or envy, thus providing a chance that they themselves will be successful.
The relationship between rivals is seen in American culture as inherently negative, at least in the modern era. In the Japanese perspective, rivals are seen as best friends, who understand each other better than anyone else, and who uses the competitive urge to better both parties.
The urge to not lose out to your foe forces people to become better.
In a love triangle, however, people are weak and foolish so they often take the easy path of sabotaging one leg of the triangle in order to empower another leg. They don’t have to improve when they can use 1/10 of the energy in blowing up someone else’s relationship to gain that which they seek and fear to lose.
When it’s just between two people, they don’t have as many cheats available to them. So it becomes more efficient to simply compete with all that they have. They don’t want to lose out to their rival because other people aren’t worth the trouble of beating. They don’t want to lose out to their rival because their rival is what they themselves see as best to have in themselves, thus to recognize defeat is to recognize the defeat of one’s hopes and aspirations.
In popular Hollywood parlance, you don’t often see social competition portrayed in a positive and sound fashion. That’s primarily because Hollywood itself is SOCIALLY SCREWED up beyond your wildest imaginations.
What LibProgs promote isn’t envy but jealousy. The 3 legs of the triangle are
1. Totalitarian government authority
2. The victim classes themselves, in the form of individuals or gay groups or black panther gangs, etc.
3. The enemy, i.e. Republicans, Uncle Toms, racists, Tea Partiers, and so on.
By making number 2 afraid that number 3 will take away number 1’s support and comfort of number 2, jealousy is generated. Not envy. Or rather, not simply envy. By adding a single element, the Left transforms basic emotions into negative emotions. And negative emotions into evil emotions. Not that complicated really. Certainly doesn’t cost as much money as an armed rebellion.
This motivates number 2 to strike relentlessly at number 3 in order to SECURE and own the love of Mamma and Daddy Big Brother government. Don’t let the evil Republicans take away your welfare bottle. They’re going to make it so that your people starve in the streets and die from back alley abortions. ANd they’ll make sure you die without medical insurance.
Ever wonder what would happen if an Iago said that to a jealous ex of yours when your ex has the power to crush your relationship with your current girlfriend?
People think what the Left is doing is envy, but class warfare involves 3 parties not 2 as would be the case in an ancient blood feud between noble houses.
In point of fact, the Left has made people think they are about envy in order to disguise the jealousy they are really working to further. Nothing about the Left can ever be taken at face value. The fact that the Left seeks openly to generate envy is the greatest and best evidence that that is in fact not their real objective or methods.