World of Drama

Sometime ago, the world changed. I can't remember when. I'm not sure if it happened slowly or overnite. All I know is that at one time in my life things were different.

I don't remember plotting a gossippy revenge at home after school each night in high school. I don't remember whining that my feelings were hurt becuase of a sarcastic joke. I don't remember whining over anything. The things I don't remember me doing, I can accept. What I don't understand is I don't remember others doing any of that stuff either. The entire world has turned into a soap opera.

I play World of Warcraft. I've been a member of several guilds and everyone has fallen apart due to this need for people to be part of some horrible and easily predictable plot. A day fails to go by where someone whines about how horrible everyone else is. About who is a noob. About who can't play there character class right. About who doesn't think someone is helping them enough. About someone who thinks they help too much. It's fucking pitiful.

One of the many particular real life (as in not in a video game) cliche's I hang out with developed a phrase. "No Drama." Yet, 95% of the people using the phrase are the ones who cause most of it. Almost to the point where as soon as I meet someone who says the phrase they are immediatly ousted by me. If they are saying it, it means they've experienced it. If they've experienced it, well, then more then likely they were a part of it. It's a great idea, but it has become seemingly immpossible.

Every show or movie I watch on tv (barring a few cartoons and even them are short in supply), seems to have become a soap opera. I know when I was younger, we used to joke that soap operas were fake. That noone lived like that. Was I that unaware? I don't think so. I think that somehow, one day, soap operas just became real. Maybe it was Jerry Springer that started it. Maybe it was The Real Life. Maybe it really was the soap operas. Maybe God just felt a need to change the human DNA makeup to make his video screen more entertaining. I don't know. But it wasn't like this before.

I realize that people have a lot of different personalities and that those from time to time clash. I know I tend toward neutral or chaotic neutral so maybe I'm biased. But I don't remember them clashing as much as they do now. Is everyone that starved for sympathy that they need to announce to the world everytime someone wrongs them? Don't we have pills for that? Hell, it seems like everyone I know is either on or has been on a pill to make them feel better about themselves.

I don't take any pills to make me like myself. I don't always like myself either. Their are definately some sides of me that both I and the rest of the world would be better off without. Maybe I should take a pill. Then I can be like all the other whiny bitches out there. Maybe I should kill myself. Leave a letter saying "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT." That would show them. Stick it on the toaster. And for years everyone will say "it wasn't even rock music that made him kill himself. It was the toaster. The goddamned toaster." Bet people will think twice about buying a shiny toaster after that.

The drama isn't just on WoW or in a few select cliches. I see it on myspace. I see it across the blog world. I see it at work. Even in the fucking construction industry. Where men are supposed to just get drunk and kick the shit out of each other till one is declared "RIGHT." Even those hard asses insist on talking behind each other's backs. What happened to people just telling you they didn't like you? What is wrong with that? And the few people I've met that still have enough sac to be that way are ousted as assholes and become the subjects of the gossip they strive so hard to avoid. Noone seems to be able to take a joke anymore. And sure as shit noone seems to be able to take an insult at all. But everyone seems to be dishing it out. I've even found myself getting defensive over stupid shit lately. Why? I never used to. I've always cared less what people think or say.

Someone recently told me "it's just the world evolving socially." That's bullshit. Evolution happens to help the species adapt better to a new stimuli. This isn't helping shit.

Soon we won't even need reality television. We'll be able to watch it at the mall and then out our front window. Coming soon to a living room near you: "WORLD OF DRAMA"