In the contemporary subculture of trailer park ghetto admirers FOB has crystallized as simplistic slang for what is already described in the other posts. However reducing FOB to primitive instrument of insult is like cracking nuts with a microscope. There is so much more than just the derogatory form of this beautiful word. First a curious mind must describe the behavioral properties of what FOB is and does, then one must ask the deeper questions of cause and affect? Did FOB became the masterpiece of sadistic Asian parenting practices or is there an even deeper, genetically rooted cause for the complete dysfunction of FOBs as normal beings. Yet the answers could lurk on the soil of primitive instincts of jealousy which would answer the fundamental question of why FOB’s parents are so determined to eff-up their kids in such a profound way as to never fear competition from their own?
Clearly seeking a single answer in itself would reduce this discussion to a capacity of how the FOB would approach the challenge hence one must reason at a cognitive level of at least that unattainable to the FOB’s mind.
Another school of though would argue that FOB is the victim of systematic massacre of self esteem; confidence and ability to practice cognitive reasoning for the purpose of some unknown goal. The outcome of such strategy had produced the self-image of weakness and total inability to achieve self-efficacy: the top phase of one’s personal development based on Maslow’s pyramid.
No one is to say what that dark goal could be but one should extrapolate its enormous significance based upon the extend to which FOBs are being subjected to abused (both physically and mentally) by their siblings. I personally favor the victim theory due to my personal exposure to FOB and the tragedy witnessed first hand that creates a sad proximity to the lowest forms of human decay known to mankind: genocide; hate and racism. I am very explicit in NOT comparing FOB’s parents to the animal kingdom because of Nietzsche’s definition which states that the animals are NOT capable of evil, only humans are (Essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals): the realization of one’s ability to inflict pain upon another, sadly, is a human property. What a sad undeserved credit to those torturers of the future FOB.
Nevertheless we witness rare cases of rebellion against the genocide of one’s sacred values committed daily by FOB’s parents. Instead of seeking compelling ways to encourage FOB to raise against the repressor we as highly evolved jurisprudence society must alleviate FOB by judicial leniency and compassion. A quick review of French law reveals an interesting interpretation of western punitive penalty code: crime of passion is widely tolerated as exception from the otherwise strict corrective penalties imposed for traditional felonies. Whether we agree with French lawmakers or not, there is something to be said about our own exceptions such as revenge justified leniency and the traditional all-American principle of fairness: eye for an eye. If we stand behind our tradition then eye for an eye it is: create a lenient track record of case law which frees the FOB from the shackles of double repression: one from their parents and another by our judiciary which penalizes one’s quest for emotional and physical freedom.
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