RE: Intriguing Blog Title Overhyping Somewhat Disappointing Content
That was an hilarious comment. A lady next to me on the train could tell how hilarious I found it. She chuckled in response to my uncontained reaction. Thanks for rewarding the commentor because he or she really made my evening. Your post here is really nice - raw and unplugged, not completely unedited, but did you use a thesaurus, you naughty man!?
I have observed a worrying tendency - maybe more so on some sites than others. A sort of social pressure toward mediocrity. We are made to feel we have to follow the crowd in whatever it is saying and however it is saying it, 'bruh'. Don't be more articulate, don't spell words correktly - cause we all sayin the same thing anyway, or be criticised for ones own ideas - 'your too old-school and too rigid or toxic', because I have strung together a clear line of reasoniing. I was schooled on YouTube yeserday, 'wow, bruh - 2018 and your still correcting people's spelling(sic)' This was in response to me asking someone if he meant that people 'don't know how to pronounce your name, or pronoun's your name'.
@trumanity,
Hey Tru.
I have observed the same phenomenon. I have a theory: It's not mediocrity per se, rather mediocrity is a symptom of something more fundamental.
My theory is that it is all part the "ME Obsession" with which sociologists are becoming increasingly concerned:
I'm so special and you have to accept me as I am. I don't have to conform to any standards. My incorrect spelling is as good as your correct spelling. Indeed, who's to say my words are even misspelled? Why should I have to conform to a dictionary ... I've made my own. No Rulers, No Rules. I don't have to use logic because my Truth is as valid as a thousand contradictory studies from Harvard. Reality ... is what I say it is.
We are individuals ... but we are also intensely, even pathetically, social animals. The two create a conflict ... and a balance must be struck. In modern western culture, the imbalance has become extreme in favor of individualism. Even the idea of the fundamental unit of social organization, the nuclear family, has been shredded.
Too much "Me" and not enough "We."
No willingness to self-sacrifice for the good of the group. This is my fear for Steemit ... the people in charge won't deny any of their own short-term self-interests for the long-term good of the group (and themselves). Every other time in history when this has occurred, it has presaged the demise of the nation or empire. Rome is an excellent example.
Quill
There is no right and wrong; there is a rightthink, though. If you are guilty of not rightthink, then you are hurting someone. The limits are an invisible box - no one speaks about it and everyone is seen shouting about it, in mobs. If you are inside the box, then anything you say or fart even, is art and even scientific, factual, real.