Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Posted: Friday, November 11, 2011
by MKDS
Storm Multi-Media Technologies Ltd
Summary: It is something that is seldom spoken of, and yet, it is something that we all carry with us from day to day throughout our lives from birth. The very term has been written in stone throughout each generation.
Main Body: The first time I heard of this saying the figure of speech meant nothing except a familiar ring to its well-developed expression as it rolled off the tongue and settled upon my ears. What did it really mean? Who was it who began its journey through the ages and the many generations?
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come 'true'. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.[1]
In other words, a prophecy declared as truth when it is actually false may sufficiently influence people, either through fear or logical confusion, so that their reactions ultimately fulfil the once-false prophecy”. Excerpt from the online Wikipedia Encyclopaedia.
I was 41-years-old when I was first confronted with this saying, to which the whole world that I was used to suddenly changed with increasingly unnatural balance and consequence. Balance in the way of my very own self becoming different, and consequence in the way that I had been assigned to living a half-truth within a world filled with liars and deceivers. So, you see, the whole idea and logical truth behind ‘Self Fulfilling Prophecy’, is that I had become more of a victim to the actuality of the saying than I had before being made aware of the concept itself. The strained belief that everything was going to become better, that my life could only get lighter in burden than heavier and the fact that the day after, or the favoured common saying ‘Tomorrow will be a better day than today’ was thrown into such turmoil and chaos that to believe anything good could come out of another day of existence had been lost.
The “Cool Factor” of this saying between those Family and Friends was fraught with the kind of responses that had eventually picked themselves up and shaken the lives and routines of those people around me, even those that had very little to do with me through the several years of holding onto the idea that I could somehow change the very saying’s impact on my life; the saying is just a saying until a single thought of an individual turns around and decides to cheat “Fate”, or in their own wisdom decides that the life they are living can be averted somehow to bring “Luck”, “Wealth” or even “Fame” – It cannot be changed.
William S. Harris of Oxford’s Philosophy Lecture Hall’s once called upon the saying several times in one day throughout an experiment that lasted three weeks in duration, then for the final week of that month he would document the day to day experiences which he did not intervene with. The results he said were: “Absolutely staggering.”
Harris had found something that science could neither prove true or false, even when the facts stared it in the face, his highly exposed papers showed that the saying “Self Fulfilling Prophecy” was in fact an ‘Actual’ natural human event that would run effectively through many generations. Psychologically speaking or otherwise, Harris knew that one day in the not so distant future, his very notes would cause the sort of reaction within the large community of the Human Race, the only thing necessary for him to do was prove that the human psyche would need to succumb to the concept also before the initiation and that the ability was active in the human functionality. Indeed, if the concept was true, then why would it be less heard of or unknown to the many people around the world to whom it effected?
Many have looked at the way in which the term “Self Fulfilling Prophecy” has been effectively connected with religion as a whole; In other words, a prophecy declared as truth when it is actually false may sufficiently influence people, either through fear or logical confusion, so that their reactions ultimately fulfil the once-false prophecy”. This, of course, is not the opinion of the original Author, but the opinion of myself [MKDS], who has personally received wave after wave of invitations to prove the non-existence of an “Entity” which cannot be seen, felt or otherwise identified in a singular experience of the definition. Though this is a subject that I leave to others, as many wars and deaths have been the result of “Religion” as a whole, and I am not one to provoke the ones who rightly so have the choice to believe in anything they wish.
For me, the term “Self Fulfilling Prophecy” means one thing, and one thing only – that life has to be lived without the negative and downward examples that place us in a position where “Failure” follows. Using only the simplest of human psychological mechanics does this term herald significance, not as a single certainty that will overcome all mankind’s seeking of answers to the many questions asked when everything goes wrong, but as an overall term of triumphs that can be gained by awareness and common sense.
Serious flaws and transparencies through the use of this term has brought more light to different complexities in our daily lives, such as the ability of changing a human being from one stance to another, or changing the conduits of a single persons DNA to something other than the person who once was – Impossible.
“You can shake the apples from an apple tree to make it look like a tree, but you cannot change what people see the tree to be – an apple tree.” – Marcus De Storm.
© Marcus De Storm 2011
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