7 Habits: thoughts while reading up

Yesterday: It dawns on me that there should be a difference between "victim complex" and "martyr complex" if for no other reason than the sufferer's core perception is different. Victimization has the sufferer believing they are being acted upon, and that there is nothing they can do about it. Martyrs believe that they are doing something but that the world does not appreciate them for it.

I will ping wikipedia for details; probably there is already a differentiation and I just don't remember it. It wouldn't be the first time I have "invented" something, only to find out that it already exists. Weird to be in this interim bit of living in the future, as access to the net is not yet ubiquitous; at least not the "free for the taking" kind of wireless.

Later: ah even vaunted Wikipedia only offers:

In popular psychology, a martyr complex is the tendency to feel that one is being singled out for persecution. It is often characterized by the belief that one's persecution is the result of exceptional integrity. It is sometimes regarded as a variant of masochism.

just now tuned to the global frequency

About a year in internet-time after the rest of the world is bored with the topic, I finally watched the Global Frequency screener/pilot. The first five minutes and last three minutes are completely standard TV cliché moments, from the carnival fire-breather framed mid-shot just as the camera pans past, to a load of awkward exposition setting up the story at the beginning, and the "come work for me" plea to The New Guy as an emotional moment and the subsequent counterbalance of humor based on an established running gag to break the tension up a bit at the end.

On the other hand, everything between those two moments was at least twice as good as regular TV, and could easily have been the next X-Files. It made me want to read the comics; I'll have to see to that.

The ethereal psionics and speed ramping effects were very cool looking. There were a couple misses: it wasn't readily apparent why a the last recruit (the asian woman) was needed to do her thing, and the bit with the target's apartment didn't seem to be resolved; was he a serial killer type, or was he a "good guy"? Who was right, the scientist or the detective?

Much of it was smart, and not overly explained. I appreciated that.

Marginally off-topic: My personal, real life, recent living in the future moment; Chinese girl riding a bike down an Osaka back alley, chatting on speakerphone and staring at her live video chat on the cellphone while weaving through pedestrians.