So many of us go through life questioning our worth, trying to overcome or justify our perceived weaknesses. Our status-driven, narcissistic culture; compounded by the "like/dislike" social media self-importance training machine... has made many of us completely neurotic about whether we measure up to some imaginary (and often impossible) societal standard. Marketers spend their whole lives concocting ways to convince you that you are inadequate and that only by purchasing gadgets, lavish cultural icons, and "lifestyles" can you prove that you are a worthy and successful human.
How much of that is/was complete corporate programming? One of the most remarkable mistakes corporations have made in recent times, was when the ultra-wealthy were forced to bunker in their mansions due to COVID-19... they called what they previously convinced the public were "unskilled laborers"... now all of a sudden were "essential workers." It may be mere semantics to the ultra-wealthy... but to those workers who were paying attention... they realized something. They realized that they had REAL worth. They realized that we are ALL important to making this machine run.
I don't know how many, or to what degree the psychological zeitgeist has changed, but it seems to me to be a good time to remind and re-enforce the ideas that WE are the architects of our lives, and of our society. We need only to ORGANIZE, EDUCATE, and implement POLICY... to transform our civilization away from the dystopian nightmare it is right now, into a sustainable, humane, and prosperous one. The bigger the changes, the more of us it will take, but it IS WITHIN OUR POWER to make those changes.
Side note: No matter what your belief system/faith is, this is a good time of year to take the time to thank your fast food worker, cashier, cab driver, mail courier, grocer, and/or all of the people the system doesn't recognize enough, and find/embrace that shared humanity.
