“Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.â€
Jean Baudrillard
Is this not the most cynical thing you have ever read regarding smiles? Is this not also the truest criticism of the false smilers? Are my smiles laced with such insincerity? Do we try to mimic the mediated smile of Aboslute Happiness Perfected?
It might be more that any oft repeated behavior, that is non-compulsory, arouses suspicions.
It might be more that any oft repeated behavior, that is non-compulsory, arouses suspicions.
It might be more that any oft repeated behavior, that is non-compulsory, arouses suspicions.
This arousal would be especially acute for people trained to question assumptions.
Discovering motivation is always a guessing game. You never get all the pieces of the puzzle. So much of motivation is obscured. Yet we all develop a working hypothesis of what drives other people.
Any habit which is found in the far edges under the normal curve of consistency, anything that is done extremely consistently or extremely inconsistently, attracts our notice. (Of course that has something to do with our attention, which is better suited to notice changes than to notice things staying the same.)
Anything a person does out of compulsion has a simple explanation. It is as if they have a line of code that they cannot modify. So it is as if the planning portion of their mind is not doing it. That which they do out of what we call choice, anything done under the direction of the planning portion of mind, is potentially worrisome.
