Each social subculture, which for a certain time follows a group of people, usually united by common interests or something else, is characterized by a number of specific signs.
These include both external and internal elements that are characteristic only of this particular cultural community of people. Thanks to them, they easily recognize their like-minded people. This can be a certain style of clothing, hair color and length, jewelry, accessories, preferences in drinks and food, behavior, and more. Everything that is imperceptible or incomprehensible to others, for example, specific slang, usually refers to internal signs. If a person who does not use the World Wide Web hears a set of letters "SPGS" what it is, he will not understand, because, as they say, it will be "off topic".
How is this abbreviation deciphered?
Of course, like any abbreviation, this one has its own decryption. SRSG - what can this reduction hide? There will be an extremely large number of answer options among people who do not use the Internet or spend time at a computer outside social networks, forums and other sites where everyone seeks to demonstrate their own erudition and a deep understanding of any subject, work or phenomenon.
In fact, the SPGS stands for simply - "the syndrome of the search for deep meaning."
What is the meaning of this concept? Definition
Does the LSS have a definition? After all, this reduction is actually nothing more than a slang expression that is characteristic of a particular social community, respectively, scientists did not deal with it and, probably, in principle do not realize the existence of this concept.
Nevertheless, a definition for this expression exists. So, LSS - what does this acronym mean? In other words, this painful desire to find a hidden or deep meaning in everything that exists.
The most common definition of this concept has developed independently and does not have a specific author. According to him, SPGS is the peculiarities of the individual’s reaction to works of art, the desire to find some hidden meaning in them and demonstrate to others his exceptional understanding of what the master tried to convey with his work.
What is the essence of this phenomenon? How is it expressed?
All those who follow the publications of musicians, artists, directors, photographers or representatives of other creative professions on social networks, no doubt, among the discussions and comments appearing under posts with new works or their announcements, “highly intelligent” remarks, the authors of which seek to clarify to others, the meaning invested by the authors in the created.
Such replicas from the “know-it-alls” are none other than the manifested SPGS. What is this from the point of view of most other people? Imposing one’s vision of the content of a work of art, an object of art, which often not only does not correspond to the thoughts of the authors, but practically replaces them with oneself.
How else is the phenomenon understood?
SPGS is not the only existing version of the name of a social phenomenon, expressed in the desire to find meaning in everything and convey it to others.
Before the appearance of this abbreviation and, in principle, before the Internet became a mass and affordable means of communication, leisure and finding information, a different name was used. It sounds like this: "Syndrome of school lessons in literature."
This expression arose due to the fact that much more attention is paid to the search for “meaning between the lines” in literature classes than to the work itself. Also, this type of reaction can apply to objects or phenomena that are not related to creative activity. For example, quite often people look for the background in the speeches of politicians or in the actions of animals. But in relation to works of art, the most pronounced is the LSS. What kind of product of creativity this is, it does not matter at all. Equally actively “find” meaning both in the texts of modern songs, even write reviews of them, and in biblical subjects, in the works of Leonardo and in the works of the stars of Instagram. People suffering from SPPS are not so much interested in the subject or work, but in the process of searching for the secret design of the authors.
Is there a similar scientific concept?
From the point of view of psychology, such a condition can be interpreted as painful, which is a consequence or a foreboding of paranoia. Can it talk about schizophrenia. But, of course, only if a person speaking in the style of "highly intellectual snobbery" does not boast about others, but actually sees secret intentions in everything.
In psychology, the term “apophenia” is used to denote this type of thinking and the corresponding behavioral and social trends.
Is this condition painful?
What is LSS? Is this a social phenomenon inherent in a certain group of people, or is it a painful state of the psyche of a particular person?
The question seems complicated only at first glance. This is a special state of the psyche, and a social phenomenon. Moreover, they appeared much earlier than their names. For example, incomprehensible or contradictory fragments of the Bible from ancient times artificially indulged in the "necessary" meaning. From this lesson a separate section of theology, called exegetics, grew. And giving “the right meaning” to something is nothing more than the reverse side of his search, that is, SPGS.
Thus, we can assume that a similar phenomenon arose a very long time ago. But it appeared so massively, no doubt, due to the development of communications and the availability of the Internet.