My wife and I were dating for a little of two years. My wife was working in Manhattan and I visited her at the end of her work trip and stayed for a weekend. We scored Wicked Tickets and watched the show. We had a blast watching Wicked. One of my favorite parts of the play was a scene where one woman promised the other woman that she would make that woman popular, as a show of her friendship towards the unpopular woman.
There is a new book by Mitch Prinstein titled Popular. The book outlines the issues we face in society because our bodies have not evolved beyond worrying about status and popularity. More aptly put we need to evolve beyond worrying about convention popularity and status and be more concerned about likeability and with compassion.
Often what makes us gain status and become more popular is not good for the modern world we live in. What the world needs now is love sweet love (I could not resist myself). Honestly though we need to reprogram society and change what is popular and gains status.
“The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the matchless and the exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, but nobody can touch them. ( “Keeping up with the Joneses” )”
Erik Pevernagie
Most billionaires are psychopaths and have taken much much much more from society then they have contributed. Even the most philanthropic billionaires have only given away 20% of their wealth so far. Most Billionaires in the United States hover between 1% and 5% of their wealth in their philanthropic endeavors. However society has been programed to make these folks popular and important when they should not be. In a fair and just society billionaires should not exist. Billionaires are proof that our society is broken and the popularity of billionaires does not point towards the development of a better society in the near future.
Take time today to reward and seek the things that should matter and make those popular. what matters most is compassion love, human connection and relationships.
The Corrigan Encore 