Oh; to be a clown in the midst of performance. Oh; to lash out loud and roar with the crowd. Oh; to stand out alone from the rest of humanity and scream with disapproval as you are pitted between yourself, the audience and the main attraction…lo & behold!
Ta-da!
Come forward y'all & meet & greet that great two-headed monster, the heckler!
According to http://www.dictionary.com/, heckling is defined as “to try and embarrass and annoy (someone who is speaking or performing in public) by questions, gibes, objections or constant badgering.
In other words, the heckler is the one (or two-headed monster) person in the crowd who will try their best at attempting to mutilate, destroy, disrupt and generally wreak havoc onto a performer, speaker or writer; this in essence is their entire reason of existence.
Those that attempt to do so generally believe the individual is hurting them personally or wants to get back at them for being hurt by them in perhaps the most miniscule way, but they might not have even been hurt by them to begin with, at least not directly.
Sometimes the heckler will hackle others in order to protect their friends or colleagues and therefore shout, write, wave signs and intentionally disrupt with the meanest, most low-down and cruelest words they can think of in order to achieve success inside their minds. This tactic is similar to bullying, railroading & accusatory actions. It’s a vicious cycle to say the least, but where does it all come from anyway?
Well, one place it may directly have a connection to are feelings of abuse, mistreatment & perhaps the most hurtful action is violation of their own most basic humanistic rights & abilities to which that may pose a potential threat for them to function as a normal human being.
So who gets the blame in all of this? Is it the educational system? The media? Outside influences? Television? Films? Society? Nope, this time it falls directly upon the responsibilities of their parents; especially if the nucleus of the family as a whole behaves in a total dysfunctional manner or has split up over variable differences, either from divorce or disagreement or again, has been harmed or abused (raped) in any shape, way or form.
I honestly believe that their heckling is their personal cry for help because when they heckle, they are actually drawing attention to their inabilities to cope overall and therefore struggle publicly and helplessly when they cannot understand and therefore react to actions in a semi-unreasonable & irrational fashion. They need the attention; it is a temporary fix to their lifelong misery.
On the other hand however, they are naturally-born human ornamentations that give a performer, writer or speaker some comic relief as they stand up there or write to them and babble on either vocally, electronically or on paper with their disapproval. They do add value to performances and give the performer, speaker or writer a chance to reflect on their incoherent criticisms, whether they are real or imaginary.
In that sense & in my eyes, I appreciate the heckler. Value the heckler as dysfunctional beings that cannot handle realism as realism goes & instead live inside a plastic bubble that can and does pop from time to time, giving them cause to become caustic for no apparent reason. They are the very reasons some of us performers make it. It kind of gives the natural freaks a real run for their money.
So, hecklers, come one come all! I dare you to step forward and make yourself known to the world. It is after all your dysfunction that keeps guys like me in stitches
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