A less wild example I can think of is that someone that is antisocial and had their nose in books used to just be called an introvert or a nerd, but now such a person would probably accused of using escapism to avoid the real world. A harmless personality trait is now considered a concerning problem that an individual should be shamed for.
Not everything outside of reproducing and generating capital is cope.
Yeah, it’s the internalization of neoliberalism. People need to be perfect cogs in the societal machine as like a product. You see this on dating/relationship/dating app advice a lot about how you need to be a perfect candidate free of all dependancies and issues before you’re even allowed to date someone else.
Also just anti-art and solipsism because you see this weird productivist idea that making art is good but experiencing art is bad from grindset/Randian types all the time. I think mostly because they think Marvel movies are the height of culture and associate that with mass-consumerism and think art’s value is just how much money you can make with it and you’re basically scamming other people to care about it in a zero sum way.
Also these might be Tumblr (?) trolls doing a joke in the screenshot.
I choose to believe this in order to keep my ailing faith in humanity on life support but the fact that it’s probably just an exaggeration is concerning.
I checked the the last poster’s account and they’re definitely joking. They appear to be a trans leftist of some kind. Although they didn’t post any music suspiciously.
It’s made me completely isolated, imo. I know I have my issues, but this perception that you need to be perfect and 100% confident all the time has made it so hard. The autism hasn’t helped either.