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What is Wrong With Us? From Tech to Politics, We're on a Downward Spiral

What is Wrong With Us? From Tech to Politics, We're on a Downward Spiral

I am writing with the perspective of someone alive in the year 2016. Technology has revolutionized our lives within the last 10 years. I write as someone who has lived before much of today’s tech was widely available, someone who was around during the transition and someone who is living in this post-human connection, electronic ego-centric world. I write as someone who has been astounded, confused, hurt and abused at the hands of society following these changes. I write as someone who sees that a fervent moral objection is long overdue.



Since we are approaching a general election, I want to quickly touch on politics. I see so much hate go back and forth between people based on their political views. I see the right trolling the left, the left trolling the right, while most of the ignorant populace inadvertently trolls themselves. See, social media has given everybody the right to share their opinion without going through the effort of actually considering what they are saying. I see people losing and choosing friends simply because they support a certain candidate or a certain platform.



As a result, the innately maligned bipartisan system has indoctrinated the users of social media. The left would like you to think that they value egalitarianism and social justice, while the politically conservative are “racist” and “backwards.” In turn, the political right wing would like you to believe they stand for individual merit, and the left is too compassionate to those whom they consider “lazy.” Politics, which was typically once a private matter is now discussed as a matter of course on open online forums. The internet has removed barriers to entry from the ability to share your opinion the world. As a result, even the least educated people feel entitled to persuade people to share their possibly idiotic views. Should they fail, they simply resort to defamation.


What is Wrong With Us? From Tech to Politics, We're on a Downward Spiral

Another topic I’d like to touch on is feminism. I do not believe that women are worth less than men. I also don’t believe that women are worth more than men. Western feminists, on the other hand, seem to think that equality means they are untouchable. For example, if a male friend of mine crashed my car, it would very certainly come to blows and whoever came out on top, would come out on top. Now if that were the case with a female, I almost certainly would be labeled one of the worst types of people according to society at large.



In romantic settings, women feel entitled to make men feel worthless, to ignore or degrade them if they don’t tick every box on their list. If a woman rejects a man, she is empowered. If a man rejects a woman, he is “gay” or an “asshole.” If a woman is unclear and doesn’t respond to a man, and he gets sick of being jerked around and stands up for himself, he is depicted as crazy or violent. While I’m not saying this is the truth for all people, there is certainly a significant group of women who believe that it’s OK to disrespect men, but that they should be respected unconditionally.



I do not subscribe to this belief. What this tells me is that deep down, we don’t respect each other as people. We don’t respect each others’ time, we don’t respect each others’ ego and we certainly don’t respect each others’ happiness. This is made ABSOLUTELY clear by the fact that rape and consent have become the sexy issue of the day. Should a woman allege that a man raped her, the entire community will jump to her defense and do their absolute best to defame the man’s character. Rape allegations ruin lives as much as rape does by itself, and they are simply thrown around for petty reasons like contract disputes. (because pretty, entitled women really do believe they should get away without accountability).


What is Wrong With Us? From Tech to Politics, We're on a Downward Spiral

Finally, I want to talk about the people pining for social justice on social media. I’m talking about those who write and share posts concerning discrimination. Now, it’s not the content of the posts that bother me. Rather, the attitudes of people that do post. I’ll see people posting things about respecting others’ cultures, recognizing white privilege, all sorts of things. The problem is, these are all too often the people who truly don’t show respect to others. They post thought provoking articles and compassionate photo/text combos to convince others that they are nice caring individuals.



However, these are the people that reject men by ignoring them. These are the people that tell me I should fuck off and not talk to them because, “I look like my name is Armen or something”(Armen is a very common Armenian name). Our culture has allowed self-obsessed, self-absorbed people to claim that they are the ideal standard of what people should act like.



So what should we do about this? One might expect a long winded explanation, but it really is quite simple. Do whatever the FUCK makes you happy. Don’t look good, be good. Don’t pretend to be happy all the time, be happy all the time. Don’t lie to avoid hurting someone’s feelings, hurt their feelings so they know the truth. Don’t ignore a man to get him to go away, tell him to go away. Be an actual good person, not a fucking hypocrite.

What is Wrong With Us? From Tech to Politics, We're on a Downward Spiral
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