Is acting psychologically unhealthy?

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I wasn't sure what you meant until I read the first post. I was trying my damnedest to figure out what "acting psychologically" was.
 
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Method acting is usually just an excuse for arseholes to act like arseholes and get away with it - I'm thinking of Jared Leto sending dead rats and used condoms to his Suicide Squad costars because of how kerrrazy his role as the Joker supposedly made him.

You'll notice you never hear about people 'method acting' as especially kind characters and doing nice things for people.

Most actors though? They're just playing pretend, brah. That's just something human beings do. They think about what it would be like to be someone else, and then they pretend.
 
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Depends.

Performance is a type of expression that makes the mundane more theatrical and exciting. Being able to remember lines from prose poetry can make women's panties just fly off.

But the annoying theatre kids from high school that would be singing Lady Gaga at 7am? Like dude, chill out. There's a difference between being an actor and a bard. And memorizing Othello is barely a fraction of it.

Ideally, performing arts would go back to it's roots from Ancient Greece, where it was about telling stories like Dithyrambs, where someone would commence a massive party full of wine by singing a song to the god of partying, Dionysus.

The Irish do something similar today:
 
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Absolutely. They're professional liars. Many people are professional liars of course, but with acting it's inarguable, that's literally their entire job description and sole responsibility.

That aside, there's nothing healthy about want unreciprocated attention/affection from anyone, let alone from millions, let alone actually getting it.

That aside, the demands of modern life are so specialized that we no longer champion well-rounded individuals; instead, we value the people who excel in a single area to a hyperbolic degree. The thing about specialized excellence, though, is that it necessitates sacrifice in all other areas -- think about how many stories romanticize the act of sacrificing everything in pursuit of a single ideal, or savants or visionaries who were otherwise pieces of shit. Hell, Oppenheimer and Ferrari both got movies last year. Excellence in a given area comes from time and effort invested in that area, which necessarily means that time and effort isn't invested in other areas, which precludes you from being a good person, or at the very least from being as good a person as you could be.

And all in the pursuit of a skill that arguably doesn't actually benefit society. I'm hesitant to point this finger at the arts, compared to, say, grown men playing children's games, but none of these people deserve millions of dollars.

It's investing yourself in the act of lying at the expense of the rest of your life in pursuit of unreciprocated attention from strangers and undeserved financial reward. There's nothing healthy about it.

Mariposa2.0 LTE said:
The diffusion the ego for long periods of time is never healthy but to say we don't act multiple times a day would be a lie.
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Speak for yourself.
 
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