The Tyranny Of Exceptionalism
The majority of life is unextraordinary, indeed quite average.
Having the Internet, social media sites and hundred plus TV channels is amazing. But this flood of extreme information has conditioned us to believe that exceptionalism is the new normal.
Technology and mass marketing is screwing up alot of peoples expectations.
We end up feeling like losers because a simple Google search shows us thousands of people without the same problems as us. Technology has solved old economic problems by giving us new psychological problems. The Internet has opensourced insecurity, self doubt and shame.
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