06/09/2020
WHY THINGS SUCK
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This feeling of failure, endless challenge to convince others to make your way presents a daunting problem.
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Have you ever been in a situation when you just give up on fighting for what you hold is right? You concede and burn out inside as a result of constant emotional outburst.
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You just let in anything or anyone no matter what comes out of it. You feel busted.
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Peculiarities of my character and intellectual stance taught me to analyse the situations I’ve just described.
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I believe this emotional outburst comes from the lack of communication skills that we pride ourselves on these days. Our generations (Gen Z and millennials) were raised in a weird, communicative environment. We depend on talking, chatting, texting, exchanging ideas, producing content for everyone, sharing our opinions and views on various things.
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When we are deprived of opportunity to speak up, we feel oppressed, disinterested and struggle to articulate our views when we are being criticised. We believe we were born to be loved and we hate being corrected or manipulated by our terribly knotted social system, whose social groups are hard to bundle up. We strive for individuality and we define this term individually.
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Yet, we still pour gazillions of hours of our time into the “chatting world” and produce little result. This dependence on communication is, on the one hand, disastrous, on the other - it stimulates traffic of content and exchange, which many believe is beneficial to economy. What’s individual about it?
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Alright, we heard it all. There is nothing new as of yet.
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But I still find it amusing that while being confronted with a problem, our communications skills lack the ability to argue in a deliberative sort of way. We activate our emotional shield for protection.
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We have 0 motivation to dig inside the problem, try to work things through.
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Instead, we’d rather have our mouths wide open accusing everyone except ourselves of behaving badly. And we do so unabashedly.
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Yes, being loved is a virtue. Personally, I aspire to this kind of virtue. Sometimes you have to be punched to learn about your mistakes, though. And that is perfectly fine :)
👉👉👉 @ Moscow, Russia
