{"id":5643,"date":"2009-11-17T20:42:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2009-11-17T20:42:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:42:16","slug":"schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/5643","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we say Avenue Q<\/a> on Sunday, I realized I’d heard one of the songs before: Schadenfreude<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I actually like the song quite a bit–nice and upbeat and extremely funny.<\/p>\n

But later I started thinking about the song. And realized that although I enjoy the song, I don’t quite get schadenfreude as a concept. Yes, I know what the word means, and I understand the idea intellectually, but I don’t really feel the concept.<\/p>\n

All those teen movies where horrible things happen to the characters for comedy? I cringe. Those YouTube videos of people falling down the stairs or off ladders taking a nasty tumble? I can’t watch them.<\/p>\n

Anything along those lines horrifies me. I have to look away and feel almost ashamed at having seen someone’s suffering.<\/p>\n

Let me make it clear, I’m not saying I’m a better person because of this. I’m most certainly not a saint, and I will admit to feeling a certain satisfaction when I hear something bad has happened to someone who was cruel to me in the past. But I don’t like to hear about anyone suffering a physical trauma, no matter what they’ve done. And I know entirely too well what it’s like to be laughed at, and it’s a feeling I wouldn’t wish upon anyone.<\/p>\n

I know there have to be other people who have the same reactions I do. But a whole lot more people seem to get it.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s the fact that (to the best of my knowledge) I don’t have any German heritage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we say Avenue Q on Sunday, I realized I’d heard one of the songs before: Schadenfreude. I actually like the song quite a bit–nice and upbeat and extremely funny. But later I started thinking about the song. And realized that although I enjoy the song, I don’t quite get schadenfreude as a concept. Yes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[847],"class_list":["post-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-sequiturs","tag-schadenfreude"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-1t1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}