DRAMA

[anticlimatic]

I think drama is inherently a product of conflict or dissonance. The discomfort common psychological paradoxes cause us- like loving someone and hating them at the same time- generates a potency of feeling which is oft contagious to fellow human beings via empathy, and also because potency of feeling is rather desirable in general. This is why rare people who dislike drama tend to be the types that already have too high of a potency of static feeling (like INTJs), and why most people who idle at low levels of emotional arousal are drawn to it like crack.

 

[Bush]

The problem is that folks draw the line between "problem" and "drama" much differently. Drama is basically that set of trivialities that's a layer on top of real stuff. Kinda by definition you're not going to be invested in the stuff you see as trivial. "Oh, I don't deal with trivial stuff, I deal with problems."

Do some people have a warped fucked up definition of non-trivial? Sure. But do some take the opposite extreme and maybe cut out too much, baby and the bath water style, because they don't want to deal with any body's anything? Because that's my MO.