Not sure if you were a Last Psychiatrist reader but I feel like you would appreciate his article on grade inflation that gets into the exact same idea: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/08/grade_inflation.html …
I wonder to what extent this whole woke clusterfuck was always the inevitable endgame for "the customer is always right" higher ed, which in years prior just caused massive grade inflation and stupid paint-by-numbers lectureshttps://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1305541759074816010 …
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I was wondering the same thing. How can a generation that never achieved a real success that didn’t come with an asterisk handle a world that doesn’t have to love them ? The answer seems to be to bully, intimidate and shout down legitimate criticisms.
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Didn't hurt, but certainly not the main cause
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It’s a stage in the master slave dialectic. Fetishizing the slave after both have realized the poverty of their sadomasochistic relationship. Also explains hipsters and tattoos and bourgeois white kids culturally regurgitating working class authenticity. And Silver Lake.
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This is a fascinating take. Agree there's a meaningful connection between those 2 concepts, though it can be stated less controversially. There is a "devout follower" behavior to a lot of those groups you mentioned, since trying to create your own doctrine is hard. So they follow
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Yes, compounded by the fact that many of the customers were apparently lunatics.
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Work in retail at any Big box chain for day and you'll wish there was button controlled trap door to an alligator pit on the customer side of the customer service desk thanks to that social catastrophe of an adage.
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The "customer is always right" attitude is why people who think this shit is stupid need to speak up then and there.
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