Fuck this new world. Yes, I said it, and I hope I offended you. And if I did offend you then you definitely need to keep reading what’s below. It makes me sick that things have changed so much in such a short window of time. We’re definitely a more progressive and advanced society now compared to 25 years ago but we’ve also lost touch with reality.
The everyone gets a trophy mentality is grooming armies of soft cancel culture kids who grow up to be soft e-mo adults incapable of accepting defeat or facing the slightest bit of adversity or anxiousness without folding like a cheap chair. How did we get here?
We could argue technology and one would be right to take that approach. How much of it is familial cyclicality versus new technologies would be impossible to quantify but one would probably be right to argue that technology has only exacerbated things even if those things weren’t good to begin with. Still with me? Good. Moving along.
Where we decided to honor “feelings” over truth is actually the point of divergence. We’ve managed to push reality as far away as possible through the use of current social platforms and lack of real social interaction. Accountability is now nonexistent. I can jump on a post, tell someone they’re a dumb fuckhead and their ideas all suck, and never be held accountable. I can even vanish and never come back. I can create a wake of destruction at someone’s core and I don’t have to explain shit.
It’s through these actions that we’ve created a knee jerk reaction to that destruction. We’ve chosen to overprotect instead of overemphasizing the importance of truly knowing oneself. Instead, we’ve chosen to throw a blanket over everything regardless of whether or not it is true. The long term ramifications of this and the need to value people’s feelings over what is true will almost, with absolute certainty, ruin many people’s viewpoint of themselves, the world, and reality itself.
It’s not only a distortion of the world we live in but a complete disservice to the individual themselves and the future of society. If you think that sentence was heavy and harsh it doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of all the issues that have been popping up as a result of the changes we’ve seen with how things are handled today at school, work and universities.
The everyone gets a trophy mentality that has been popping up for years in conversation. We should have known that tides were shifting then, but I’m sure the first humans exposed to this behavior thought to themselves, this is a little weird but ok. To the defense of the intention behind the everyone gets a trophy I get why they may have thought this was a good idea at the time but they were wrong. They thought it would be good to have the kids not question there rank or pecking order in the group. They thought it might not hurt someone’s feelings when they left the ballpark or soccer field if they at least left with some sort of prize. They were wrong.
These same kids grow up and are completely shocked when they’re fired from their first job or get an F for something they turned in at college their first year. The real world doesn’t care about your feelings. The real world cares about results. The longer we sugarcoat this shit and create these false environments the worse the self-esteem gets and the higher anxiety and depression grows. To clarify, this is not about being a dick and shoving it in a young child’s face the moment they fail – no it’s about calling a spade a spade, engaging people to self analyze and then welcome outside opinions of their work in order to continue push the boundaries of what is possible for human potential.