Guest Post by Todd Hayen
Along with mRNA coursing through our veins (probably not yours and definitely not mine) there is a good wallop of narcissism. But that didn’t only come with the vaccine; they have been injecting that devil’s honey into our bodies for quite some time.
How? And how does it show up in the world? Well, think about it. It is everywhere. We are now taught to worship our individualism (well, not really, more on that later), our uniqueness (well, not really, more on that later), our specialness (well, not really, more on that later), and our diversity (well, not really, more on that later). Smoke and mirrors it all is—more on that later.
There are so many examples of all of this in our culture it makes the mind spin. And so much of it is just taken for granted—look at the “Woke Culture”…if you could describe all of that in one word, what would that word be?
“Me” Yep, “me”…in fact, “me, me, me, me, me, me.”
And if it isn’t about “me” directly, it is about you looking at me, and you telling me what I want to hear, not what is truthful, but what “me” wants to hear.
Call “me” by the proper pronoun, do not insult me, do not prejudice me, do not criticize me, do not describe what I am unless you describe me the way I wish to be described, do not restrict me, do not oppress me, do not ask me to do anything, do not judge me, do not hurt me, me, me, me.
It is your responsibility to look after me, to nurture me, to feed me, to love me, to validate me, to make me happy, to make me feel good, to give me whatever I want whether I have worked for it or earned it. Me, me, me, me, me, me.
That’s narcissism. But it is a strange brand of narcissism, a new version of it. And we have it in our culture by the boatload.
Did you ever wonder where this idea that “everyone is a winner, and everyone gets a prize” comes from?
I remember when I was a kid, and that was a long time ago, some neighborhood mother suggested to my mother that she should give a little gift to her other two children while celebrating the birthday of the third one. I don’t think she ever did such a thing, at least I don’t remember my jealous crying being calmed with a gift when my sisters got wonderful presents on their birthdays, while I got nothing, but I could be wrong.
Still, you get the point.
This narcissist feeding and prepping started a long time ago. It is probably a by product of the Second World War when the United States, as well as other nations, came home to lick the wounds of physical and psychological rape in Europe and the Pacific.
Long gone was the “let’s toughen them up for a cruel world” parental mantra of previous years. It was replaced with the sappy, “Let’s go easy on them, poor dears.” The 1950’s saw the start of walking the path toward opulence and well being, which was paved with good intentions. The world was still tough, but no need to grind it in.
This process started slowly, but eventually began to pick up speed. We still heard a lot of this: “my kids are going to have a better life than I did,” and what better way to lavish on the “you are so special” conviction than with providing everything that kid could possibly want or need (what do kids need other than love, shelter, food, and maybe a hand carved toy to play with when bored?) The “consume until you die” nature of the culture was certainly happy to oblige.
Soon, all this was cranked up to include not only material justification but emotional validation as well—such as never being on the losing team in sports and other competition. “There is a prize for everyone! No child is forgotten!” Kids never learned the agony of defeat, and consequently learned there is no reward for working hard and actually developing any sort of skill or know-how—or character, God forbid.
Yes, it created a mess.
I won’t go into any detail about other stuff, like the whole gender craze, the demand that everyone in the world kowtow to what the kids want (adults too, of course) with regard to pronouns, the selfie craze, the TikTok “look at me” craze, etc. (Are you aware of the thousands of TikTok videos of young, scantily dressed girls doing evocative solo dances in front of the selfie cam?)
For example, if a person doesn’t acquiesce and start memorizing every sort of craziness in sexual preference, they will then be accused of committing a hate crime. What more entitlement could anyone place on themselves? We see this in racial issues as well, no one seems to be able to look at anyone even sideways without being called a racist, or a white privileged asshole, or worse.
The problem pervades the culture so deeply and so persuasively that it is impossible to not be confronted with it in nearly every situation.
So what happened to relationships where each participant has some obligation and duty to the other? What has happened in families where there used to be tolerance for differences, and flexibilities regarding each member’s needs?
What happened to communities where people all work together for common goals in decency, character development, moralities, and good citizenry? (And I don’t mean common goals such as mask wearing, social distancing, or vaccinations.) It’s all gone, or so it seems.
And is this all in the name of diversity? Individualism? Uniqueness and specialness?
In fact, as much as they tout diversity, there actually is no tolerance for it any more, everyone is “equal”—remember? Individualism has become narcissism and self-absorption, with the requirement that everyone else verifies and defines the individual.
Uniqueness and specialness has been squeezed into a strange form of “treat me like everyone else or you are going to get in trouble.” In a very odd and strange way, the very thing people are claiming they want is the exact opposite of what they demand they get.
No one wants to be seen as unique, they all want to be the winner. No one wants to be an individual; they want to be identified as something with a rigid and dogmatic definition. No one certainly wants to be special because then they might be treated differently, and besides, being unique and special requires hard work, sacrifice, and discipline.
In my very humble opinion, we need to return to a culture where people define themselves, and as long as they are not hatefully labeled as something denigrating and derogatory, others need not define them. We need to learn to love one another as of equal value, but not equal in what makes us unique. We need to allow others among us to excel in certain skills that we admire, and reward them for, and what we may personally be deficient in.
We need to understand the value of hard, decent, work to better ourselves, to better the family we belong to and the tribe we call our own. We need to understand it isn’t always about ourselves, but about others around us as well.
We need to understand that the skills we develop are skills we personally will benefit from as well as benefiting the partner, the family members, and the community to which we belong. What we develop as a human being is a personal accomplishment as well as an accomplishment for the entire human race.
A tall order, eh?
Yeah, I don’t expect anything like this to change all that radically any time soon. And, again, the slow indoctrination into a self-absorbed culture was intentionally implemented primarily through our education system.
Our work must begin in the home and in our communities. It is “bottom up” work, and is essential in bringing back any semblance of normalcy into an impoverished humanity.
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It’s wonderful to say ‘we need’/’we need to do’ and have an ability to see a problem and deal with it. Opinion like this is all over the internet.
But that’s all anyone is doing. The answer is not in lack of problem solving ideas when the puppeteers and sell outs at the top from local to DC are doing exactly what they plan to do to fulfill their goals and want to do-destroy the US from within and make us a totally dependent beggar. They have been shoving their ’embrace poverty’ mantra on the world for a couple decades at least. Make the US like Haiti! The tell us everything that they plan to do (not that they will succeed) sometimes decades in advance and people do nothing. Congress does nothing while this junta destroys. (Haiti is kept poor on purpose…was chosen to be poverty stricken, like the US is slated for the same). This is not progressive or futuristic. It is regressive.
People need to pop that lying dream bubble and false idea of the US gov and fast; then again, how many will be able to cope with all the lies they’ve been brainwashed into believing since they were born? That nothing is what it seems (even historical accounts) and what they have been taught/learned in/about society is a complete total fabrication and construct of social engineering. Yes, you yourself many times were quite unaware when herded into personal decisions/choices about many things, based on all those lies that you believed and were told was your reality here on earth. The majority are still loving living in the lies and see no need to claw their way out.
The author didn’t mention me at all, so I quit reading
😂 Didn’t mention me either. What the hell?!
Lately, I’ve heard college students, who are adults, tearfully say they are “scared” or ” feel threatened” on campus because other students have voiced support for either Israel or Hamas. Listen up, buttercups, the opinion of another person is not a threat. “I’m going to kick your ass” is a threat. Someone needs to toughen these kids up, and lauding them for trifling accomplishments and giving them prizes for showing up is apparently not working.
What you wind up describing is genuine individualism. But ‘we’ cannot reliably produce such a state of mind. It is individual. The first thing to jettison is the idea that anyone owes one anything short of by contracted agreement. Next belay the thought that everyone is equal. Then reject the idea that fair dealing can be reliably expected; see the first point.
We could continue the list but why? At bottom one must feed and water one’s body or that body will cease function and the spirit will rejoin the universe in its natural undifferentiated state. That understanding alone ought lead to all subsequent considerations regarding living on earth as we do. We are fortunate to have been given the opportunity to experience a period of differentiation, in the universal sense, and we ought give thanks and gratitude for that.
There are two oughts in there, so the argument is not yet adequately framed.