Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Intelligent Psychology

When Coco Chanel created a whole new collection pulling up the border of her skirts around 4 inches she certain launched furore in the fashion world. In fact, in the whole world. Not much just for the artistic daring new look, but more for the social impact caused. A woman would have to be quite avant garde, or brave enough, to display her ankles in the 20’s of last century.

But what exactly was it said of woman who allowed to expose herself publicly?

When I was a child we were not supposed to have 'eye contact' with anybody’s underwear. Never! So, based on this rule it was conclusive that people revealing their internal pieces of clothing, or even just part of them, would have at least a questionable moral, a sexualised element, who would be working the eroticism through their own image. Obviously, because this issue was involved into a sexual tenor, a list of other adjectives were applied to these same people.  

But nowadays underwear comes with griff and it can accessorize a whole outfit and exposing it is no more related to any sexual appeal or eroticism. Perhaps, some sensuality, when it is good taste.  It is granted that any teenager that have grown up watching people on streets, TV, and in social events having a use of this resource can only face it as ‘normal’ (regular) and, I imagine, wouldn’t get much when someone commented that only a whore would dress like that 20 or 30 years ago. References…

What we have is a miscellaneous of generations kind of flexible about what they learn with some hints of tradition merged into their concepts and suggestions, but on my point of view, the mathematic tendency of this evolution is to accept the fact with the same naturalness we replace an old collection winter coat.

Please notice that I am not ignoring the fact that there are still ways and ways of how one may reveals its underwear and how this action can even be subjected to an old judgement regarding sexual behaviour.

When I was going into my first adult phase I remember it was kind of awkward to mention we liked oral sex. To be honest, that was an authentic taboo e only with the dearest friends we would dare exchange some details. But today, any American vespertine movie talks about it freely. In fact, I would say that weird would be not doing it or don’t like it.

As that, there are a series of others concepts, ideas among us, suggesting connotations forgotten in time long ago without any review and all of us can do a less appropriated use of them. We do have a permissive tendency to analyse events with a very short lazy mind.

Psychology is dynamic because the human behaviour also is. We evolve but our evolution is confusing because it happens physically in the world around us much more rapid then we can actually ‘read’ it, acknowledge it, rationally.  

For instants, the micro-waves was invented in the 60’s last century. However, 20 years later it still could be considering a luxurious article in a kitchen as so many others electronics. Twenty years ago things moved slower and their evolution were compassed, but today, in times of globalization, with the high technical level we achieved, ‘everybody’ has got ‘everything’ in a much faster pace.   

Scary enough, there is also here a parallelism to the evolution on the variety of aims we do impose to ourselves nowadays following a very similar tacit pattern where everything became so easy and quick on the matters of wishing and getting things. Meanwhile, seems to me that what looked like more stable 20 years ago, truthfully, it was just slower…  

This text was born from my observation upon those unlucky people who has put faith into some help or advise – professional or not – and ended up even more confused. But after all, psychology is just like odontology: it is filled with mediocre professionals.  

It has been a very hard time for living, full of commotion that causes even more confusion and increasing the subconscious need we have for order and that can lead people to hold themselves to rules and values not quite tuned to our reality anymore, maybe, 4 inches out of size. Rules and values that formerly in their time and space, once, were exactly what we people needed before they have been called by revision.

Where and how we seek for guidance is the key for the balance or so I believe.

Have you all an evolutionary week.

Eduardo Divério

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