3 Ways How Modern Society Avoids Adversity
These are three ways how modern society avoids adversity, leading to a nation of weak people. It is through adversity that you can learn more about yourself.
Modern society has become focused on safety, niceness, and wanting to prevent any hardship from happening to anyone. This has created soft generations, particularly Millennials and Generation Z. Many people want everything to be easy and to come to them due to these ideas. The instant gratification from social media and the ability to deliver something to your house in two days further makes life easier. Adversity and difficulty are now looked down upon. Yet challenges are how you discover your strengths and who you are.
“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.” - Terry Goodkind
“Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” - Seneca
3 Ways How Society Avoids Adversity
Safety
The “pandemic” showed that most people prefer safety over freedom. Many people willingly did what they were told to do by “experts” and people in “authority.” In going along with things in the name of safety, people’s livelihoods were deemed “essential” or “non-essential.”
The fear-mongering pushed by the mainstream media and politicians made people fear a deadly virus that was reportedly the next black plague. This made people clamor for safety, even if it meant destroying their jobs and communities. The actions done in the name of “safety” led to the destruction of small and medium-sized businesses, loss of employment, et cetera. The “pandemic” did not do that. The reaction to the “pandemic” caused the carnage.
The culture of safety only continues to grow. The modern school system wants no bullies or bullying with anti-bullying policies. Children and young people grow up expecting that bullying is not a thing since they may not experience it. If they do, they must report it to a supervisor rather than learn to deal with the bully themselves. They never learn how to deal with someone who bullies or may exploit them.
Young people then carry this false need for safety into other areas of their lives when they grow up. It is evident now in many colleges. It is seen in the modern workplace. Safety comes first before everything.
More policies, regulations, and laws create more paperwork. That means more paperwork that parents and businesses must deal with from a school, organization, or government.
The culture of safety is merely a way to soften the population while creating more paperwork for everyone.
Niceness
Modern society says that everyone must be nice. If you do anything considered not to be nice, you may be labeled with mental health terms and told to see a psychiatrist. A common term is a disagreeable person or a disagreeable personality equated with being selfish, combative, and manipulative.
The problem is that you cannot always be pleasant. If you are overly friendly, then people will use you. By merely being pragmatic and practical, you are realistic. You recognize that the world is not a nice place. People are not always nice. Being nice can negatively affect your social and professional life. You learn where to draw the line with people. This critical grey area is not recognized in the culture of niceness.
In a culture that pushes everyone to be friendly, hardship and challenges are unacceptable for people to endure.
Prevent Hardship
The combination of society’s obsession with safety and niceness is done to prevent people from experiencing hardship. Anything that is considered to be a challenge may be looked upon as not worth doing since it requires hard work.
Instead, everyone should receive a trophy for merely being alive. Everyone should be treated equally. It has become acceptable for everyone to be mediocre by pushing these messages. It is better to be just like everyone else rather than endure hardship and become a better person on the other side.
Modern society creates a society of weak people by advancing the thoughts that safety, niceness, and never experiencing hardship is the right way to experience life.
Creates A Society Of Weak People
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” - G. Michael Hopf
People are now easily offended if they see or hear something they disagree with. Rather than ignoring it or letting the person have their own opinions and beliefs, it is seen as a problem. They want to be protected on whatever platform they may be on from so-called “mis/dis-information” or supposedly violent things. If you disagree with anyone on a topic by not taking the acceptable mainstream position (this is constantly changing), you can now be labeled anti-x, an ist, or an ism. Those labels are a form of an ad hominem attack which is the ad hominem fallacy.
Both sides of the political aisle verbally attack each other on mainstream media outlets. It is a way to rile their base and unperson the opposing side. You are told you must be on one side or the other of the false left/right paradigm.
Rather than being able to have a rational conversation about a topic or idea, people have started to resort to ad hominem attacks and calling for the platform or government to limit the reach of the people they disagree with. The inability to have a healthy conversation hurts people who want to discuss an issue. People can no longer communicate with people who disagree with them. The failure of people unable to talk, see, or be around someone who disagrees with them has led to a societal breakdown. This societal breakdown has led to the atomization of people.
People being unable to spend time with or even be around those who think differently is a sign of a weak society. Many people are weak today. A nation of weak people often is a sign of the end of an empire.
People now want to remain safe in their social bubbles online or in their communities. This has created a society of weak people. The problem with a weak society of fragile people is that you grow through adversity.
Adversity Is How You Grow
The problem with the culture’s obsession with safety, niceness, and preventing hardship is that adversity is a common way people grow. You will be weak if you never have to deal with any challenges.
We can be physically, mentally, and psychologically weak. When we are weak, we allow ourselves to abuse others who may hold positions of “authority” to enable a friend to verbally or physically use us. We must recognize the toxic and negative people, then eliminate them from our lives. We can learn to recognize negative people from those who disagree with us on a topic or issue.
You can also grow by learning to talk with people who you disagree with. You may disagree with their worldview (philosophically, theologically, politically, morally, etc.), but learning to get along with them is good. It can help you be comfortable dealing with people you don’t agree with because you will never find someone who agrees with you one hundred percent on everything (except for you). Even then, you should be open to changing your mind as information that may challenge your views comes out.
Overcoming challenges is how you grow and mature. It is a way to feel good about yourself because you reached a goal. It likely required dedication, hard work, and being able to think long-term. Modern society now looks down on those three attributes necessary for success.
You can run longer by doing cardio at the gym or outside. You can lift more by pushing what you can lift at the gym. You can improve yourself by learning new things. Learning a new skill or going more in-depth on a topic may be challenging, but you could be rewarded later.
Modern society wants people to avoid adversity. Popular culture says that life should be easy when life is difficult. Only through challenges can you learn more about yourself. By overcoming obstacles, you can reach your goals.
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Summary
Challenges are a primary way how you grow. You do not develop by staying where you are. You must learn to deal with problems in your life, or you will remain where you are.
You can avoid adversity at all costs or embrace adversity to become a better version of yourself.
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