One of the juiciest debates to emerge in the 2012 Presidential race. Is it ENVY or a matter of fairness—- one of many themes in our doc-in-progress on this powerful human emotion. Check out this latest NPR piece at the link below.
Find out more and join the conversation @ENVYthedoc on Twitter.
FOMO = Fear of missing out. The phrase attributed to Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake about the #ENVY being generated on Twitter these days.
On the front page of today’s New York Times the headline reads:
“Twitter users are tiring of it: the sharp pang of envy that comes when someone they are following on the social networking site is clearly having a better time than they are — right now.”Tweets from this year’s SXSW had other users questioning whether tweeters were “showing off rather than sharing.”
Read the rest of this thoughtful article from the Times’ Amy Harmon on all this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/us/19twitter.html?_r=1
Check it out. Let us know what you think! Are you tired of celebrity sightings and name dropping? Do you ever feel envious of a tweet? Is the Twitter tide changing? Will the underdog win with the Twitter audience?
I don’t understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of. ~ Charlie Sheen
Joanna Rabiger hits the ENVY nail on the head once again with this sighting from Mr. Happy. Send us your ENVY sightings!
Great article from HuffPo and the author of The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be
Mike Lux writes:
“Conservatives love to write off progressive populism as “the politics of envy,” saying we envy the rich instead of recognizing them for being the hardworking entrepreneurs they are. Given that, the current conservative exercise of attacking public employees for getting pensions, decent health care coverage, and occasional salary increases is irony on a scale rarely seen. Republicans and conservatives’ basic argument is that since private-sector workers have been so thoroughly screwed on wages, health care, and retirement plans in recent decades, those same workers should be mad that teachers and cops and social workers have gotten a little more economic security than they have. If that ain’t the politics of envy, I don’t know what is.”
Read the full post here
“Envy is a little bacteria living within us. It can remain small and cause minimal trouble or spread and poison the whole person.”
We love hearing about ENVY from different perspectives. Religious scholars and theologians from many traditions have often contemplated the subject and how ENVY fits into our humanity. This Cincinnati priest discusses ENVY in terms of the Catholic tradition.
ENVY is as Common as Love or Anger
Are hope and gratitude the antidotes to what Father Guntzelman calls a poison?
Team ENVY was lucky enough to connect with Seema Goswami of the Hindustan Times who wrote a great article recently about ENVY and the mid-life crisis. Here’s what Seema had to say about ENVY in India:
Envy is a four letter word. And like all rude words, it’s not one that we like to use in polite company. And yet, there it is, lurking just beneath the surface, rising like bile within us, though we hurriedly bite it off before it emerges on our lips. No, envy is not a character trait that any of us is proud of. It’s not a feeling that we like to own up to. But however much we can deny it, it is an emotion that is deeply rooted in our psyche and near impossible to be rid of. Living in Delhi, the capital of India, I find that envy is endemic. We envy our neighbours; their herbaceous borders, their new BMWs, their bright, shiny children. We envy our friends and colleagues; their raises, that brilliant new job, that great break in the Maldives, their stock portfolios, their proximity to powerful bureaucrats or politicians. In other words, we envy pretty much everyone who is richer, more famous and more powerful. Sadly, in some cases, that means we envy pretty much everyone we know!
Take a look at what Seema had to say in her recent Hindustan Times article.
Seema Goswami is a weekly columnist with the Hindustan Times, India’s leading English language daily. Her bestselling book on women at the workplace, Woman on Top (Random House) has been translated into several Indian languages. Seema lives in Delhi but enjoys travelling the world for both work and pleasure.
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