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This is something I think about from time to time but don't know how to talk to anyone about it. This is pretty much just one of my rambling thoughts and vents I often have. Anyways we're taught all humans have flaws regardless of who they are, so when you do speak up about your flaw, why are you shamed for it? I mean flaws you can't help, for example I'm a slow person, so if I bring it up why do people have to deny it and say "Nooo don't say that!" as if it is a horrible thing to be? Are we supposed to hate stupid people? Are we supposed to view all stupid people as helpless people who need others to do everything for them? It's just weird to me, people act as if you're not allowed to have a flaw and it makes me wonder if that's why these days people are so egotistical and self centered.
I can understand shaming some 'flaws' so I guess it's a gray area, but these flaws are usually fixable things like "I'm lazy so I can't do this and that" I'm just struggling to understand why you have to also be shamed for saying "I'm bad at this skill" or "I'm not very good at doing this every day thing" I can never say anything negative about myself without people telling me I need to learn to love myself or they're accusing me of trying to get attention and pity. Are humans just not allowed to be imperfect anymore? Or maybe I need to get off the internet and actually go outside.
I do sometimes wonder if we're living in an age where it's people's goal to weaponize words, would explain why several mental health terms are now becoming slurs. That's also the main reason I've been thinking about this, I can't even say I have autism anymore without people saying "Nooo don't say that about yourself" People pushing so hard to protect and fight for minorities they end up circling back to becoming the scary ableists they claim they're trying to educate.
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This abstract probably puts it best:"Modern society is characterized by grandiose self-personifications and claims on a large scale. There is a strong desire to be labelled in the most attractive and pretentious terms. This applies to individuals, occupations, organizations, and political elites. One problem is that the struggle for the most coveted sugar plums—high professional status, conspicuous consumption, ‘world-class education’, ‘excellence’, and so on—involves a zero-sum contest. This means that a benefit for one specific individual or group is gained at the expense of another. Not everybody can be excellent or afford high-status goods or get a degree from a high-status university. Grandiose projects occupy an ever-increasing proportion of the time, commitments, and resources of various elite groups, such as politicians, media people, corporate executives, union leaders, and other representatives of organizations and professional groups. But also the lives of common people increasingly circle around grandiosity. There is a strong emphasis on illusion tricks to back this up: CV improvement, title and grade inflation, organizations exhibiting impressive window-dressing through policy formulation and executive development programmes, and occupations re-launched as professions. "
Baudrillard said it very well that the world we live in is zero-sum:
"The fundamental event is that terrorists have finished with empty suicides; they now organize their own death in offensive and efficient ways, according to a strategic intuition, that is the intuition of the immense fragility of their adversary, this system reaching its quasi perfection and thus vulnerable to the least spark. They succeeded in making their own death the absolute arm against a system that feeds off the exclusion of death, whose ideal is that of zero death. Any system of zero death is a zero sum system. And all the means of dissuasion and destruction are powerless against an enemy who has already made his death a counter-offensive"