What do you dislike most about today's society?

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For me this society has made good steps i.e. gender equality, fight against racism and speaking out on mental health.

However, there are aspects which I dislike.

1. Posting everything on social media (nowadays a lot of people feel like they need to post everything on social media which can be dangerous as someone who is not close to you can know important details of your life)

2. Consumerism (wanting new things, latest stuff etc..) I think see this especially with children who want what their friends have such as the latest phone, shoes, laptop etc..

3. The world is more individualistic rather than collectivist (Before we used to check up on our elderly relatives, neighbours and would have a chat to people say who we saw outside.) Another example is bashing people on benefits, free school meals rather than helping these individuals some see them as scroungers which is totally wrong.

4. Too much hypocrisy (We see people making campaigns like #BeKind but they are the same people who bully others.)

5. We need to teach more real life things from an early age that impacts everyone (i.e. cooking, finance, savings etc..)

The constant moaning.

And I absolutely agree on #bekind. It was actually #bekindbitch.

I think the unwillingness to just accept small irritations and live and let live. How you pronounce words, what words you use, how and where you blow your nose. . .

It’s a great question.

The one thing I find insane, and the stamp of our world today, is the disconnect that is expected in everything. It’s like nobody has heard of cause and affect. Maybe it’s described as individualism. All our actions, decisions, interactions, - everything - will have a ripple effect. A nice comment, a negative one... But our world focuses on being justified in saying/doing/acting out on whatever we want. Because we can. And I find it perplexing that nobody really thinks about it. It feels like society acts as if every action happens on its own vacuum.

People who drop litter and don't pick up dogshit, general self-centredness and thinking someone else will clear up after you.

As Moira Rose said

Social media is “an amusement park for clinical narcissists...”

So true. And that’s what I dislike the most about today’s society

The entitlement. Absolutely no empathy for anyone else.

Sorry I should add a disclaimer that I'm mostly talking about work (NHS) patients being verbally abusive as if they're the only one.

Complete and utter lack of resilience.

The hectoring tone people think they have the right to adopt with other people.

Slavish admiration of shallow celebrity.

I look at people like the Kardashian and feel terribly sorry for anyone who thinks there's anything there worth bothering with.

Humans

The idea that things used to be so much better.This news in...nope.

Has to be the constant moaning to me. Honestly, we have it really good in the first world, peeps! Oh, and the virtue signalling. Just because you believe in a cause, that's no reason to ram it down everyone's throat.

The lack of balance and the pull to extremes, in both directions, eg extreme left or extreme right.

The cancel culture and ignoring all the opinions of someone if you disagree with some of their ideas.

Sexism and the continued hatred towards women and the women who are also complicit in this.

Racism and the continued ignorance around it.

The continued race to the bottom.

A large section of society's unwillingness to be questioning about many many things.

The lack of action on climate change.

The concern here for coronavirus after choosing to ignore the conditions that many people live in in many parts of the world.

The unashamed bragging. What happened to being humble?
The oneupmanship on who is most worthy of the biggest victim award. I find watching the documentaries about WW2 just so heartbreaking. 16 year olds going off to war for our freedom and yet we’re so disrespectful of their sacrifice and their trauma when they came home. Many never discussed what has happened and yet we have so many people wrong their hands online about the literal violence of words. Shameful.

Entitlement.
Snowflake parents raising snowflake children.

Lack of resilience.
Self centred ness.
Obsession with vacuous ‘celebrity’ culture.

The sense of entitlement that people have.

Bitterness and comparison. People pulling people down who may have worked harder or, god forbid, been lucky. Constant comparison to others, which is fueled by social media ' if it wasn't posted it didn't happen' mentality.

We are inherently selfish and intolerant of views different to our own.

Littering and not picking up dog poo.

The obsession with looking like flawless barbie clones; photo filtering; fillers and plastic surgery and stupid amounts of make up. I find this one especially sad as the mother of girls. Dear god I hope being happy in your own skin becomes the next big thing.

Oh no the “I have to have it and I have to have it now” mentality. What happened to working for things? It’s all about keeping up with the Joneses.

People adopting positions just because - they don’t care about you or about persuading you, it’s just outrage, clicks, likes, look at my basest opinions and let the worst of yourselves out. And people do, they vote for utter shit like Brexit because some rancid arsehole with a pint makes them laugh, etc etc. I just hate that people don’t value themselves more.

I hate that we’re still - STILL - run by a cadre of emotionally destroyed ex public boarding school bullies. They hate us so visibly (and I hate them back) and I don’t know how we get out of the cycle. The lack of respect towards us is actually starting to impact on my mental health. Nobody in power wants what’s best for us, or even to allow us to be better (and this isn’t how it was when I was growing up).

Social media

I think there’s a lot of thoughtlessness even if not maliciously intended.

Little things like not being arsed to return your trolley at the supermarket so chucking it into a car parking space (fun for the person who ends up trying to park there), leaving dog poo, having long loud phone conversations on public transport, littering etc. It definitely has an ‘I’m alright Jack’ mentality to it.

The people.