Filed under: Apathy, Attitude & Aptitude, Content, Context, Culture, Social Media
I’m back.
Best not ask. Not because it’s bad news – but it’s definitely not good.
Unfortunately.
I must admit it’s getting to me, but there’s many more worse off than me, so I just need to keep the faith and follow the DR’s orders.
So given I don’t want to bring myself down – I’ve had enough of that over the last week – let’s launch into a rant shall we?
In the time off, I made the mistake of spending some time on Twitter/X.
While I still post on there, I don’t do much of it … and do even less reading of it.
To be honest, I had stopped prior to Elon buying it. I was over the endless humble bragging and hot takes from people who desperately wanted ‘twitter fame’ without ever really doing anything worthy of getting it.
Not just from adland – though there was a ton of that – but from people in general.
But when I revisited it, I was shocked.
On the positive, a lot of the ‘ego shouting’ had gone – moved to Linkedin, the home of ‘thought leadership’, hahaha – but what had replaced it was a torrent of blame throwing.
People blaming people for the bad choices of people.
You name it, they were shouting about it.
Government policy.
Kids behavior.
Employees.
Health.
It was not just depressing, it was exhausting …
Everyone picking fights with everyone around them.
Shouting, never listening.
Throwing stones regardless of the subject matter or situation.
Blinkered and blind opinions, subjectivity and contexts.
And it just reminded me of the image at the top of this post …
I got sent that ages ago, but it never became as powerful as when I took a brief swim back in the cesspool of what was once a relatively cool place to hang out in.
But it’s not just X/Twitter where this attitude prevails. It’s creeping into all avenues of life.
Where people are blaming everyone else for what is happening – or not happening – to them.
Of course there are many who are well within their rights to be angry at decisions forced upon them, but there are more who aren’t … they chose it directly or indirectly but just don’t want to accept or acknowledge it.
And while I appreciate no one likes to admit they made a mistake or did something wrong, it’s funny they all want the people they have decided to blame to do exactly that.
Making a mistake isn’t bad – we all do it – but never taking responsibility for it is another thing altogether. Yet we see this all the time. Professional gaslighting and blame-storming at every level of society.
From companies making thousands redundant and then claiming ‘they’ve never been in better shape’ to people on social media shouting abuse at people and positioning themselves as role models to governments blaming youth for crime while being conveniently ignorant to the fact they have robbed entire generations of opportunity or hope. We live in a world where it seems everyone wants the authority to dictate and judge but no one wants to take the responsibility for what they’ve enabled to happen.
God, it’s all so depressing which, on the bright side, is kinda perfect for a Monday.
Have a great week … hahaha.