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RE: Common Sense... or "Don't Judge Me, Monkey!"
Had to come and comment...it's refreshing to hear someone say out loud what a lot of people are just thinking to themselves! It would be nice if we could just hit the "reset" button and talk to each other like humans again.
I think we've somewhat gone overboard in "normalizing" what I generally think of as "non-achievement." At some point (in the 70's, I think) there was this whole "positive self-esteem movement" under which people started handing out "participation prizes" for simply showing up. And so (it seems) there's a whole layer of people who stopped trying, or just expected to get everything served up on a plate.