To think something is mediocre is to think that it is not the extraordinary giving an experience we are after or wonderfully surprised by. Mediocre is something most people like to avoid belonging to, being called and having it. Why is mediocre the dull and average way of life, choosing a life and a mode on to which mainstream is build and is still so much loathed as something unwanted and boring but still liked and wanted? Those boring characteristics usually are repetitious and given from above to avoid thinking for yourself, to avoid conflict and find alternatives that might be somewhat different and contradicting to power relations, taste, traditions and common ways of thinking which feel safe, good and acceptable.

Mediocre is the acceptable something we fall for because it is something we all should be having, enjoying and doing and we like this bond. For instance owning certain electronic devices is seen normal and they belong to modern home which we all share. The fact that electronic tools making our lives easier are at reach for all is making the mediocre mode we now know as normal accessible in a way that we do not have to question these choices which we make to fit in to be connected. We want to be part of the world that lives via electricity and labor forces of far away lands. Cheapness is mediocre but it can be expensive. We do not question because we do not have to, our comfort is a state of peace of mind but also state of selfish demand to fulfill all needs which mediocre people want because they reach out for the perfect comfort and ease, but also perfect level of luxury with which to compete and compare. Mediocre is one kind of battle and competition between those who like material good and appreciate status this visible wealth bring.

My view on mediocre is also a view on the middle class. Middle class is finding its superiority in mediocre and through mediocre which contradictory thought and happening is to try and find the ultimate top on this made up mediocre level without acknowledging that there are other dimensions with capacity to outnumber and be dashingly better. Those other dimensions demand hard work to get to, so it is very mediocre not to try anything on a whim, anything that jeopardizes the balance for which mediocre people work for to maintain. Jealousy is a mediocre characteristic as is greed. To deny talent, quality of some other point of view, silence those who see and do differently, deny being wrong and doing wrong is very mediocre. It is inability to face and understand or even find one’s limits and limits of one’s way of life, it is inability to absorb change, be change and learn from mistakes. Mediocre is to bully and show contempt for those who manage to see outside the given model of what life should be. To seek perfection and originality is strangely the ideal for middle class and mediocre, how this search succeeds is subjective matter of opinion. Perfection can be wearing a perfect evening gown but where does it take us? Wearing perfection and making it? Measuring originality which there is much in the world seems to be hard enough task and somehow the easiest of choices are being made over and over again thinking they are the best there is. How originality is found, how we pay attention to it? Is it ugly, repulsive,unkind, disturbing, offensive, vulgar, cruel and demanding of something else than what we want to see? Usually yes. Mediocre is to think we can buy originality and perfection.