This is something I've noticed about modern Western culture. There is this implicit assumption that wealth, comfort and convenience are good in unlimited quantities. There's no sense that
A) Too much money makes you lazy and soft.
B) Doing pathetic shit for money is tantamount to selling your soul.
I could just be imagining things, but terms like "selling out" or "being spoiled" seem to have fallen out of use in the last decade or so. Nobody questions the notion that you should shamelessly go for the gold all the time, or that being rich is a great thing. We look up to celebrities BECAUSE they are rich now, not IN SPITE of their being rich, as in the past.
Something got me thinking about this.
I was posting on another forum about this dude on Youtube who eats weird shit and chugs liquor. In one video he was eating something particularly disgusting, so I shared it and was like, "WTF this is gross, who would do this?" And someone commented, "dude look how many subscribers he has, he's probably making like 300k."
Like... that makes it less self-demeaning?
But this seems like a pretty common attitude these days. People seem to think it's like no big deal to sell out your values and humiliate yourself and submit to other people's will for money. This is very, very beta behavior (it's prostitution really), but people have somehow been convinced that it's alpha, like "baller" or something like that.
It's like American culture literally GLORIFIES being beta, while encouraging men to go around getting on steroids and play this movie character parody of an alpha man.
So I wonder: how much time does a society that thinks this way really have left?
It is ultimately toughness, not wealth or popularity, that determines who wins. And America has completely forgotten the importance of being tough.
A) Too much money makes you lazy and soft.
B) Doing pathetic shit for money is tantamount to selling your soul.
I could just be imagining things, but terms like "selling out" or "being spoiled" seem to have fallen out of use in the last decade or so. Nobody questions the notion that you should shamelessly go for the gold all the time, or that being rich is a great thing. We look up to celebrities BECAUSE they are rich now, not IN SPITE of their being rich, as in the past.
Something got me thinking about this.
I was posting on another forum about this dude on Youtube who eats weird shit and chugs liquor. In one video he was eating something particularly disgusting, so I shared it and was like, "WTF this is gross, who would do this?" And someone commented, "dude look how many subscribers he has, he's probably making like 300k."
Like... that makes it less self-demeaning?
But this seems like a pretty common attitude these days. People seem to think it's like no big deal to sell out your values and humiliate yourself and submit to other people's will for money. This is very, very beta behavior (it's prostitution really), but people have somehow been convinced that it's alpha, like "baller" or something like that.
It's like American culture literally GLORIFIES being beta, while encouraging men to go around getting on steroids and play this movie character parody of an alpha man.
So I wonder: how much time does a society that thinks this way really have left?
It is ultimately toughness, not wealth or popularity, that determines who wins. And America has completely forgotten the importance of being tough.