(March 19, 2016 at 11:52 am)Minimalist Wrote: Bill Maher with a new take on the slime bucket last night on Real Time.
I agree with the "esteem" issue. Our marketing is quick satisfaction and "you the consumer it is all about you"...... But as far as flaws, Bill is not wrong in that it should always be an excuse. But at the same time that also sets up corporate America to come up with marketing like "Just do it" and unrealistic utopias coming out of celebrities and sports stars and musicians and even businessmen, "You will make it if you just do it", which is false. The higher up you go, the fewer spots there are and the more competition for those fewer spots. It is important to be educated, and everyone should shoot for the best they can do. But not everyone will end up being Stephen Hawking.
So I am not with Bill as a blanket statement, I do think it is ok to have flaws, and esteem, but balance in context of the situation and the individual. So it depends. If it leads to more assholes like him, I agree. But growing up my mom had the same authoritarian attitude Bill is conveying here, and being sensitive, that actually caused me to have lower self esteem and that too can cause someone to be destructive as a teen. It is ok to be yourself and think for yourself too.
He is playing off the self entitled crowd.
But our "It's all about you" marketing I agree does produce self entitled narcissists like him.