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Signs of a Diseased Culture.
Symptoms of a diseased culture:
-The leader, chosen by that very culture to run it, is a misogynistic, racist, rapist, hateful, horrible human being. And still, much of that culture continues to applaud and support him.
-The main mode of selecting one’s sex partners (or, in seeking a romantic one) has become via a left or right swipe on a cell phone.
-That we live to work, instead of living to grow and become.
-We routinely dismiss and even outright ignore human beings for whom we care (and are right in front of us), for electronic devices. Unable to put them aside for longer than a handful of minutes, ever tethered to their updates and dings.
-We are told (or more accurately, pressured and guilted) into thinking that people must ever remain close with and connected to their family, simply by nature of the label “family” and the sharing of similar blood. That no matter how toxic or hurtful these people might be, we are obligated to endure it, by nature of their being our DNA relation. This is messed up, dismissive, and misplaced thinking. And it keeps a lot of people in connections that are deeply harmful to them.
-People are either too fat or too skinny. They are never just “enough.” Instead, they should be ever striving toward a nearly impossible ideal. This…
