Shmolitics is Resentment

People constantly point fingers, always blaming external forces for their woes. This is a widespread societal phenomenon. Blame shifts away from personal responsibility and onto others, creating a cycle that stifles awareness, personal growth, and natural communal harmony.

In today’s society, victimhood has become a currency, often used to garner sympathy and justify horrific actions. While acknowledging genuine grievances is essential, there are tremendous differences between valid claims and pervasive cultures of ceaseless blame. This collectivisation of guilt is not only strange but abstracting: moving responsibility for the societal dynamics onto a community and the individuals in it. People are limited based on the perceptions of strangers they could never interact with in any real, meaningful, or progressive way. Stockholm culture tracks with Victimentality identity and revolves around justifications for resentment.

A society that fosters resentment creates an environment where truly good intentions are met primarily with open hostility. People become so focused on seeing historical injustices through a singular lens that they overlook the actual dynamics and present opportunities for growth and healing. When individuals feel disempowered, they may rely on external factors to validate their experiences. This lack of agency can stifle personal responsibility and hinder the pursuit of improvement; i.e., goodness in any form. This dynamic creates a barrier where genuine efforts to improve things are dismissed as self-serving. Good intentions face backlash based in unsupported theoretical positions founded more in politics than anything else.

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