Watching last night’s House episode made me think. How big a part of our human emotions is actually real, truthful emotions which haven’t been faked or overdone?
I think, very little. We are all mostly psychopaths inside. Psychopathy is a disorder which presents itself as a lack of empathy and an overall lack of human emotion.
Most of us don’t need much to fake these emotions. We rarely empathise with our friends. Yet most of us felt sorry for the Haitians this mid-January. I know I did.
The reason for that is, we start to think, what would it be like if this was us, and that doesn’t happen very often on a personal level.
Women tend to fake less emotions and tend to show real emotions more than men. That can be explained using evolution and while that’s not really necessary today, 10000-15000 years ago showing emotion for men might have meant the difference between life and death.
We may think it’s love, but it almost never is. At least, not for men. We call it love, but it’s actually sexual desire and lovingness (synonym for affection). For women it might as well be love, but for men – it’s simply affection.
Or maybe it’s the fact that men can’t tell the difference between love and affection?
Empathy doesn’t exist. And to quote House:
“We are selfish-based animals crawling across the earth, but ’cause we’ve got brains, if we try really hard, we can usually aspire to something that is less than pure evil.”
(Probably David Shore, the creator of House)
