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What you said is all true. The part that is controversial to me about what you said is that these expectations didn't exist even moreso in times past. My read
by mancerayder 4y ago
What you said is all true. The part that is controversial to me about what you said is that these expectations didn't exist even moreso in times past.
My reading of the past, certainly the modern past where we have literature of the time, TV shows of the era, advertising and so on, is that roles-based expectations were even MORE extreme decades and centuries ago.
As I write this I begin to think, maybe one problem is the opposite: the lack of strict guidance and those guardrails have lead to more existential angst. Who am I, what am I to do, is more salient in these times perhaps.
- twayt 4y agoRigid expectations may have been more prevalent but they most certainly were also more attainable because the competitive group was smaller. Rigid expectations might actually be better for humans. Having multiple potential paths and failing at all of them due to unconcentrated effort is worse
- granshaw 4y agoIf there is one thing I’m ever more sure of as I get older, is that too much choice really is bad most of the time. And it doesn’t take much to count as “too much” here either. Along with this, ignorance really IS bliss.