Throwing out a Saturday morning topic.....
Why is it that it seems everyone these days is always someone else? It seems that there is an underlying motive or personality that always rears in the times when doors are finally being opened.
Are the days of the handshake deal really gone? If not, where are these people that mean what they say and say what they mean?
Trust, to humanities detriment, has become a multifaceted term that at one time meant something. Something that was attached to a length of time. These days, it's 'trust while convenient'. Don't hand out something whole, unless you are ready to get it back in jagged pieces, tied to mendacious reasoning.
"Let's make a deal", "I'll pay you back", "I mean what I say"
Why is this getting so bad?
Quoting: GradientIt is because brotherhood is dead. Much like every other social construct. We only have thugs, gangsters and whores. On ALL levels. Think about it.
It does not pay to be genuine. In the old days people did not have the nets, and cell phones, what they did have was integrity proven by their word. To have that reputation you had to have congruence between words and actions. The brotherhood recognized you for this and it was esteemed. Now bitches, hos and thug life is glorified. Or lets say a less desirable subsection of society with their narcissistic anti-social traits are now the new "Brotherhood." What used to be rejected and abnormal is the new accepted norm. Shallow self-centered narcissism.
I agree with what you are saying Fubar...it's the 'brotherhood', of Humanity that has taken a dive and been replaced by what was once NOT accepted behaviour.
I personally see the change in Humans happening, because our 'way of life' has changed.
Used to be we had to depend on each other to SURVIVE. A lie could easily mean the death of another, if we did not follow thru on our 'promise'( handshake).
Now, life is much more centered around being 'independant' from one another, we are all isolated, and have become extremly selfish.
People do not 'know' each other like we used to.
We don't go into the same town/store every day/week, see the same people, for years...get to know each other as individuals...we don't even really 'know' our neighbor living next door, or a few doors away anymore.
It's real easy to lie/decieve/rip-off a 'stranger' ,than it is someone that you have an emotional connection with. If you never have to see the pain/loss caused by your deception, it makes it endlessly easier to keep on doing it.
There is no 'down side' for these people, because they just go to another area, another person, and never have to see the consequences of their actions.
It's much like the 'corporate mentality ' has taken root in Individuals now, and that is the new 'accepted' way of dealing with others.
On the non business side of the coin, I think people wear the mask to try and 'fit in'.
So many just aren't comfortable with who they really are, and find themselves pretending to be what they believe others expect them to be, or want them to be percieved as.
Our Society has taken the turn that the beauty of being an 'individual', is 'dangerous', and all 'non-conformers' must be 'pressed in the mold' until they 'fit' comfortably into the new paradiem(sp?).
It's killing us on a Soul level...people becoming 'dead inside'.
After a while, they just give up trying to be a unique individual, or they just don't make it in life.
It really is sad to see the way our Society has degraded, what it has become.
There is no where left that honesty, integrity is not only expected, but the norm.
It has now become the new norm to be dishonest, uncaring, self centered, and greedy.
