It’s Not The Meek, But, The MEAN Who Shall Inherit The World!
Donald Trump is the symptom of a broader rise of nastiness in the professional, public, and even personal lives.
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Look around and chances are you’ll find a lot more meaner people than earlier. Log in online and there is almost a 💯 per cent probability that you’d be trolled for no reason other than being yourself. Try to pick up an argument on any topic, and I’d bet it would soon escalate into a confrontation. Worse, engaging in a civil debate or even a conversation rapidly descends into a “free for all” where the “winner” is simply the one who is the nastiest.
So, one can “forgive” Trump for his outright and outrageous nastiness, as, IMHO, “he” is simply “following orders” or to put it less diplomatically, pandering to his “base”, comprised of even more baser folks. Which begs the question: Why is nastiness cool?
Maybe, this is the Entropic view of evolution wherein humanity progresses towards disorder and chaos, rather than a “higher” evolutionary stage. Or, maybe, technology is enabling us to “get away” being nasty, as the anonymity and the sheer ungovernability of much of the internet, especially social media, is a febrile ground for meanness.
