How history will view us...

[Incongruous]

Is self-esteem really an issue with our generation (presuming you are around 19)? We are always being taught to be confident, to sell ourselves, its a dog eat dog world etc...

The perfect way to create someone with low self esteem, tell them how brutal and individual it all is, its helps to erect the shield of individualism, put there in order to protect whilst it isolates. I see it less as a product of greed, but agree about the me, me ,me stuff. Its all about how one can be oh so special, so exceptional, so individual. Because these things are impossible to achieve for most of us, it reall feks us up, creating all that stuff I talked about.

[Fragony]

The perfect way to create someone with low self esteem, tell them how brutal and individual it all is, its helps to erect the shield of individualism, put there in order to protect whilst it isolates.

Screw that, it's the nanny-mentality yes we can-all together! that prevents us from being individuals, we are hammered to equal size, everything must be equal, everything must be representative of society.

[Incongruous]

Screw that, it's the nanny-mentality yes we can-all together! that prevents us from being individuals, we are hammered to equal size, everything must be equal, everything must be representative of society.

What nanny-mentality?
Every society has a collective sense of itse;f and what it is, the modern attempt to stamp INDIVIDUALISM onto it in big red capital letters has really screwed Westerners up. It is a society of individulaism, that cannot work.

I am using individualism in the modern sense, I do not want to be controlled by society.

[Fragony]

What nanny-mentality?
Every society has a collective sense of itse;f and what it is, the modern attempt to stamp INDIVIDUALISM onto it in big red capital letters has really screwed Westerners up. It is a society of individulaism, that cannot work.

I am using individualism in the modern sense, I do not want to be controlled by society.

Doesn't work? Look around you, it works just fine the west as it is now is the best thing thjat ever happened to the world, it's progress. If you ask me, things go wrong for some people because they get bored.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Of course I count my blessing, we get to take advantage of all the modern technology, medical advances, working conditions etc....

I'm not complaining about that, I'm just saying that this western culture is turning everyone into 's who are always told to boast about how great they are and to look out for no.1

[Fragony]

I'm not complaining about that, I'm just saying that this western culture is turning everyone into 's who are always told to boast about how great they are and to look out for no.1

Turning into what, have a chat with the new boyfriend of my grandma (the little minx) and he will tell you about the old times when everybody was nice and nobody had sex before marriage. But he won't tell you that because these times just never existed, and he had a lot of fun when he was young. All that people are complaining about is nothing new, egoism and all that , it just happens in a much better place.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Turning into what, have a chat with the new boyfriend of my grandma (the little minx) and he will tell you about the old times when everybody was nice and nobody had sex before marriage. But he won't tell you that because these times just never existed, and he had a lot of fun when he was young. All that people are complaining about is nothing new, egoism and all that , it just happens in a much better place.

Yeah I know, I used to respect older people until I looked back at their own generations, and they were every bit if not more decadent than us nowadays.

You have to go back a few centuries before I am happy.