I am myself and myself is bad at fitting in
I am myself and myself is bad at fitting in
Idk how to embed audio to Lemmy but imagine it playing on the background lol
Lazlo bayne - I'm no superman
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If only they made the hole square....
that's right! the square hole
[mental breakdown intensifies]
Can you guess which hole these shapes go through?
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That's optimization for you. Just a 27% increase in size would allow a whole lot of more shapes, but think of the economy!
We don't want squares in society. Your free to make your own hole as long as you don't modify the walls or use the hole.
Wow, this really says a lot about S O C I E T Y
Truly we do live in one
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What is the real context of this pic ?
Kingons from Star Trek have combat as a major part of their society/culture. They always seek honor and glory (in combat)
And jussssst in case anyone doesn't get it, we call that a "glory hole" and... Yeah... Look it up, but only if you're not at work and are over 18 lol
He's gonna get poked in the eye.
Just be yourself by changing everything about yourself until society approves or you will be ejected.
I recently made a comment bitching about how I didn't have time to enjoy my life because of the 9-5 grind and one of the replies I got basically amounted to this and "get screened for depression". No shit I'm depressed, I'm not compatible with the world I live in.
Best I could do is a home made Ai therapist. I'm not rich enough to buy emotional and psycological support.
That's right, it goes in the square hole.
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Wait until you learn about the job market
The difference is that jobs and places to work are extremely diverse. It's not always easy but you can find something that at least is a tolerable way to make a living. For most folks there are lots of options. With the education system... if you don't fit into that cookie-cutter hole, there are no alternatives except don't go, which is straight up illegal in a lot of places until your 18.
This is such a bullshit moral for stories, and it's so overused that it boggles my brain. It's just an outright lie - accepting oneself will NOT magically solve all of one's problems, that's not how reality works.
I think that there’s a comfy middle ground between giving into every horrible trait you have to the detriment of everyone around you, and molding yourself into a character just to please everyone around you.
Learning how to “Be yourself” just means learning how to take your core personality and cultivate it into being your own person that also knows how to get along well with society at large.
This is definitely true. My litmus test is simply empathy. If I were them, would I want to have a stranger (me) do this thing I'm about to do? If the answer is no, then I don't do it.
I think it's simpler than that. If you need to pretend to be a different person so others will accept you, then you'll spend your life pretending to be something you're not. If you just be yourself, then anyone who accepts you is accepting the real you rather than a false front you put on.
Note that there's a difference between pretending to be what you're not vs changing yourself into something different.
It will not solve all your problems, but it might solve some.
Pretending to be someone you're really not, unless there's a very good reason for it, usually leads to more harm than good
What if you need to hide the fact that you're secretly a vigilante?
Yeah and if you're someone like me you shouldn't accept yourself.
I'm actual human garbage.
My point is that coming to terms with who you are isn't the destination, but the first step in a road of self improvement.
You're only garbage if you stop there. Do better, one little bit at a time.
Recently I saw someone complaining that he’ll always be a virgin and will never get laid. In my advice I recommended making changes to improve himself, like being kind and generous, learning to be better socially, and taking up hobbies that involve being around people.
He said I was telling him to “fake himself.”
All of the “just be yourself” and “you’re perfect just the way you are” platitudes are meant to improve confidence, but unfortunately it means some people genuinely don’t think they need to fix things. That they are just, like, owed success from society or something.
Obviously there are aspects that you don’t need to change, like you don’t have to pretend to like things you don’t, and you don’t have to try to change your orientation or identity, but if you’re an asshole you should try to not be an asshole. If you smell bad you should shower. If you suffer from social anxiety there are both medical and practical ways to address that.
No one is perfect. We can all stand to improve things about ourselves and thus progress towards whatever goals we may have. And the more we lie about not needing to change, or indeed not being able to change, the more we let people wallow in self-pity. I don’t have data to back this up, but I suspect this sort of thinking leads in part to the wave of loneliness and incel-ness we see in our society today.
"Be yourself" + "Give yourself time to grow" + "You can be anything you set your mind to" are not contradictory and indeed need to all be taken together. I suppose a less kind to put it is "Authentically and gradually shape yourself into a person of your own choosing. We are all going to presume you'll pick well in either a prosocial or profitable sense. If you don't shape yourself well then it will be unpleasant for everyone especially you."
I think most education systems actually work the other way around, the hole's there, but the teachers will hammer students into the "right" shape
Why do you think that hole has so many cracks around it?
Pretty sure the triangle can fit through that hole.
Add the square as well, since it doesn't appear to be a cube.
I still love this clip. Her reactions are so visceral.
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So... which education system would that be?
I acknowledge that online the assumption is whenever you see memes like these it's always about the US, but maybe having that assumption is me internalizing that weirdness?
What education system is completely fair and equal in means and opportunity for children?
"Your true self is a circle. You only think you're a triangle."
Why are you am? Did you try not to be am? I was am myself but myself being am wasn’t fitting well. Well fuck it there’s nothing wrong with being am and well. I am am too and proud of it.
EDIT: This comment is a remnant of past times. Only the ones who were there before will understand it.
I've been on the internet since the before before times, I do not recognize this one. I must have been distracted at the time it happened.
Still made sense to me though.... So IDK. Maybe the internet has warped my mind. I've seen a lot.
It’s not just education, lol
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To be fair, the first panel is entirely unnecessary.
Thank you, mate, I'll add to the body as credits
There are several hole shapes but not infinite and no guarantee that an individual person will be suited to a hole at all.
Square peg, Round hole. Story of my life.