If you walk around any high school or college campus in the United States I can almost personally guarantee that you would hear the word drama being used. The Athenian theater created three genres of drama: tragedy, comedy, and satyr. Now when we discuss drama in the "modern" ideology there could be more than the original three that are discussed but still rotate around the same general principal.
Starting with tragedy to different age groups this could mean a very wide variety of issues. To teenagers it could be anywhere from Jack and Jill broke up to Oh My God I am having the worst hair day and Jimmy wouldn't even notice me now. Now as you increase in age you realize how much that really matters. A tragedy would be a member of the family has passed away or you can no longer afford to live in your house.
This brings me to the topic of economy and how it some what relies on drama. The stock market is somewhat all drama you see if there a stock X and is losing points(shares) more and more stockholders will sell in order to get somewhat of a profit. In order for the economy to do well and everyone to keep their jobs there needs to be less drama. On September 17, 2001 for instance the day the stock markets opened after one of the worse tragedies to happen on U.S. soil there was a 1,369.7 point drop (14.8%) the lowest drop recorded in history. Everyone just experienced a major tragedy and wanted to get what they could instead of trusting in a system that has proven to work when people believe in it. It took several years to recover from that horrible day and we have still not quite recovered.
What would life be like without drama? We would never have any grief, sorrow, pain, or any of that. Now I realize this sounds very appealing right now but I have yet to include comedy in the mix that takes away happiness, laughter, or anything that puts a smile on anyone's face. This would be a very depressing life to live. No sadness but happiness would also be absent just picture trying to an entire day without a smile.
What would you rather have?
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