#success culture

[iusmanayub]

Good person or successful person!!!

The social fabric of every society revolves around a few concepts. Some are fundamental while others are secondary. However, all these concepts are interrelated in such a way that a change in one concept leads to a change in another. This change can be positive or negative.

When the solid environment of a society changes, human behaviors change, indicating that the central concepts or ideas of that society are changing. The problem with prepared societies is that instead of looking for the causes of the changes in the central concepts of society in society's central ideas, ordinary people look for them in social institutions that are themselves the products of those central ideas. For example, the ongoing crisis in our society is sometimes attributed to the instability of political institutions, sometimes to social slavery, sometimes to dependence on others in science and technology, and sometimes to the deterioration of the educational situation. This perception is common that if we correct the functioning of all these institutions, our society will start to resemble paradise. In my opinion, this is a simple, if not foolish, perception.

In my opinion, the cause of the ongoing crisis in our society is not the failure or malfunction of those institutions, but the real reason is that our concept of humanity has changed. We have rejected an ideal concept of humanity and adopted an imperfect concept of humanity, whether we admit it or not, but that is the truth. The debate on the concept of humanity is somewhat philosophical, but since some of my readers complain that my columns become too heavy, I will try to present this discussion in simple words as much as possible.

It is believed that in our society, the idea of a "successful person" has replaced the idea of a "good person." We need not good people but successful people. Parents, siblings, friends all aim to make society a seeker of successful people. A successful person is an ideal person.

Generally, when one central behavior of society replaces another behavior, it first rejects it before replacing it. Until it can provide a logical basis for its existence. But here in our case, this did not happen under the concept of humanity. The concept of a successful person replaced the concept of a good person but was not rejected. This is why there is so much mental turmoil here. It is human nature that one cannot remain mentally stable and healthy by being associated with two similar central concepts at the same time.

Here you can ask that we first said that the concept of a successful person has become prevalent in our society, while in the previous paragraphs we said that we are associated with both good and successful people. What does this mean? In fact, what I mean is that although practically we have accepted the concept of a successful person, but since this concept has not rejected the concept of a good person on philosophical or logical grounds, it is also present as a concept in our minds. The mental turmoil of our society is fundamentally caused by the tug of war between these two concepts.

The short story is that the concept of a successful person has become prevalent here. Here it is necessary to explain that by a successful person, I mean a socially successful person, in which the economic aspect is of fundamental importance.

The yeast of this successful person rises from competition and rivalry. The concepts of victory and defeat are born out of competition. In competition, someone's victory is born from someone's defeat, and someone's defeat is born from someone's victory. The winner is successful and the loser is unsuccessful, meaning the determination of the importance of a person is from victory and defeat.

You may know that when hockey started, the team that had the most physically powerful players used to win. The rules and regulations of the game had not yet been set. Therefore, the player who was physically strong used to push the players of the other team and score goals. But gradually, this game developed its rules. When the rules were made, the attention of the players shifted from strength to skill. Thus, craft was born in the game, but this process took time.

Since the game of success and failure is new here, its central principle is also strength. It is legal to push someone down and move forward. As Nadia Fazli says:

No one shows you the way here If you can fall and move forward, then go It is possible that after some time this game will also create its rules. But experience shows that in those societies where this game has also created its rules, even there the era of peace in human life has not come because fundamentally this is an inhuman game.

Now let's look at some other aspects of this issue. The issue of a good person being less or more good. There is no arrogance of victory or defeat in it. However, happiness and sorrow are obtained from the struggle for maximum goodness and failure. But this happiness does not come from someone else's defeat and this sorrow does not come from someone else's victory. The competition is with oneself, not with others. His thought comes not from conversation but from self-talk.

You will think that if you want to bring about change in your society, change your concept of humanity. Since I am not eligible to do so from any aspect, I request the learned scholars to please try to see if our society's "concept of God" and "concept of religion" are the same as they used to be? Or have we made a change in it too.

#societal change #Success Culture #Concept Of Humanity #Philosophy Of Society #Usman Ayub

[8pxl]

14 yrs ago i started playing magic the gathering as a kid, and i had the dream to do art for them

3 yrs ago i tweeted about those dreams:

today i’ve released 11 official magic the gathering cards, and it’s honestly so surreal and insane to me! i did that!! i fulfilled a childhood dream, and i honestly couldn’t be more proud 🥹

#as someone who never had support it’s wild to me to ACTUALLY DO IT BITCH! #my hs counselor said i’d never amount to anything and id be lucky to work fast food #only bc i was disruptive and hated the southern culture i was raised in #hope she chokes on my success :) #pixel art #artist on tumblr #aesthetic #illustration #i am so fucking powerful #i put 18 but it’s rly like 14 yrs ago lmao oops #i edited the age for clarity sake after doing the math!!!!

[originalhaffigaza]

#black community #original photographers #black people #graphic design #black art #black history #black culture #artwork #black family #black power #black africans #africa fashion #african art #african american #african #africa #original art #black woman #black history month #black is black #blacklivesmatter #black tumblr #black women #black success #black children #black love

[m0ssyjasp3r]

real

#hbo succession #succession #succession hbo #roman roy #roman succession #gerri kellman #roman x gerri #cultural reset #The world changed after this scene. #gerri succession

[ahaura]

im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.

biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)

the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.

democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.

#i think i already said this and frankly idc #uspol #📁.zip #to me personally it's abhorrent and vile to tell palestinians 'biden is facilitating the murder of your people culture and history but you #still have to vote for him!!1' like how is that not unbelievably callous and ghoulish #frankly speaking. a lot of this 'you should be concerned about trump' is going to turn into #blaming palestinians and arabs and muslims and anyone remotely with a conscience for biden's loss #instead of doing something productive like pushing for people in power to do something they'll nitpick and belittle #and tell palestinians + arabs and muslims + everyone who understands that genocide is bad that they SHOULD #settle for a decrepit genocidal monstrous freak who is CURRENTLY facilitating genocide because #it makes THEM feel better and they aren't personally threatened (yet) by the guy currently in power #any and all 'you're not taking trump seriously' comments should be met with extreme skepticism #because i promise i PROMISE that the vast majority of people unhappy with biden are not going to turn around and vote for trump #and if they do? well guess what THAT'S BIDEN'S FAULT! nevermind the vote uncommitted campaign that was very successful and #will be replicated in the near future. but liberals only care about asthetics and superficial and not #about real material change which is why they'll dress up their callousness and racism in a 'you hate gay people if you dont vote for biden' #like this country is already going to shit we are rapidly descending into fascism and i dont see biden doing anything to even remotely #challenge it do you???? once agian. NOT an endorsement of the republican party but my GOD when the 'lesser evil' #is DOING the evil or normalizing the evil then you cannot settle for 'the lesser'! end of story.

[daincrediblegg]

Upon reflection. House of Usher feels like to me the catharsis of years of pent up anger at the blorbofication of succession characters. Mike said no you know what they’re all awful people and they should choke. And frankly? I’m with him on that. My genuine biggest complaint about the end of succession was that not enough of those cunts actually died and I’m quite happy with the entirety of the usher family (symbolic of the inherent rot of the american capitalist experiment) eating complete shit over the course of the narrative.

#something something cultural response… yeah you know I can dig that #big brained thoughts happening #THIS was the real succession series finale. to me. thank you mike #god damn but if mike don’t make me think #fall of the house of usher #spoilers #… I guess? they were dead from the start tho I mean

[nativehueofresolution]

i think there's an interesting connective thread between sarah snook saying she thinks shiv just reads whatever's currently popular and got people talking ("everyone's reading this? all right, fine."), and alan ruck saying he thinks connor only reads books that are very old and considered classics - that way he doesn't have to decide if it has literary merit, because everyone else has already decided it's a seminal work. like, it takes them in the opposite direction when looking for materials, but in both cases they're being driven by a desire to not have to have original artistic tastes or opinions and just defer to someone else's judgements. which is just so telling?

shiv can be a bit of a black sheep politically, but she arrived there by just trying to define herself in opposition to her family; it's an indirect way of having someone else decide for you to keep trying to do the opposite of what's expected. it requires little in the way of genuine beliefs, which is why she flips very easily when it's convenient. connor meanwhile just wants any scrap of attention he can get, which is why he brings up random trivia or collects bizarre historical items. he likes to be able to just say or have something that gets people's attention, without having to provide any real explanation or show understanding. and i think it's interesting how that carries over into things like entertainment or art - the lack of self conception makes it hard to do things like pick up a random book you've never heard of because it looks interesting.

#succession #connor roy #shiv roy #roman meanwhile has never read a book. his reign of terror in la i think had more to do w him being difficult #than him having genuine artistic opinions about kids movies #though i'd love to know more about that era of his life #kendall i think is similar to shiv but with more of a pop culture movies/tv slant #and i think he is probably hipstery in some ways and tries to act above the mainstream #but he's just getting his recs by going off of who everyone says is an auteur #he is also incapable of just like sitting and having a reaction to a work of art #kaitlin speaks

[jellojolteon]

Now that you've made it to the autumn of

Your years and you feel your best yet

-The Bottom of It, Fruit Bats

Izuocha week 2024 Day 6: Cycle/Miracle

#bnha #mha #midoriya izuku #uraraka ochako #izuocha week 2024 #izuocha week #izuochaweek #izuochaweek2024 #izuocha #izuchako #dekuchako #dekuravity #dekuraka #jello's art farts #I CAST SPELL OF ELDERLIES YOUR IZUOCHA #but frfr I'm gonna have feelings about grandma ochako #and like the presumed (explicitly stated?) nature of hero work where I actually don't think a lot of heroes MAKE it to retirement #and I'm not sure if living that long means your life was a success for avoiding death in a dangerous occupation #or a failure and a disgrace because you did not find the battle worth laying your life down for #I'm sincerely hoping the former but I'm not so sure in the culture of hero society in canon #at least prior to the events of the story #anyway. for these two. it's a good thing. Especially the kid whose elderly version I had an incredibly hard time designing #because it is THAT hard for me to envision him living past like 45 no joke

[catinfroghat]

The Succession fandom is going to be a total warzone once it's canonically revealed that Greg is from LA and not Canada like everyone thought

#I'm like you i assumed he was canadian too but uhhhh... the evidence is piling up unfortunately #his mom is living in LA in the pilot script he loves the California pizza kitchen his dad slept with guys in Sausalito #even the costume designer said they imagined he grew up in the skater culture of LA #a decent portion of next season is set in LA so they will definitely mention it and I'm hoping Greg will be visiting his mom #succession #tasha talks

[ovaruling]

something to be said for the fact that people have enough self-control to write a full thesis on why it’s still ok to listen to misogynistic music but cannot themselves go a single day without streaming the misogynistic music. we uphold the culture of misogyny every time we stream it or add it to a playlist etc even if we don’t agree with the lyrics. like. how is this not clicking. it’s direct support. most likely no one is ever gonna tap dance out from behind a bush and ask you for your nuanced opinion on it, and it wouldn’t even matter if they did if you’ve already given that artist and label uncountable reasons to keep making this kind of music cuz we keep telling them with our purchasing and streaming and editing and trending power that as long as it’s catchy enough for you they can say whatever they want about women

#there are licherally songs abt wanting to murder women like #there has to be more of an effort here #or at least an acknowledgement?? #music is so so so influential and it has a chokehold on our culture #and most of what is popular is misogynistic #and female artists involved are probably not in control of their content atp #music needs an audience to be successful. we literally have that power. it could not be easier to do

[tmarshconnors]

50 African proverbs.

"A bird that flies off the earth and lands on an anthill is still on the ground."

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

"The lion does not turn around when a small dog barks."

"When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers."

"The wise create bridges, the foolish build barriers."

"He who learns, teaches."

"Unity is strength, division is weakness."

"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

"A tree is known by its fruits."

"The one who loves an unsightly person is the one who makes him beautiful."

"The strength of a crocodile is in the water."

"The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth."

"A wise person will always find a way."

"Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth."

"Do not be a spectator before life; participate!"

"The rain beats the leopard’s skin, but it does not wash out the spots."

"No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow."

"Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it."

"When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby."

"The goat says, 'Where there is blood, there is plenty of food.'"

"By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed."

"He who is destined for power does not have to fight for it."

"The chameleon changes color to match the earth; the earth doesn’t change colors to match the chameleon."

"The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water."

"If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents."

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

"A wise person learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends."

"You cannot climb to the mountain top without crushing some weeds with your feet."

"A roaring lion kills no game."

"Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand."

"Where there is love, there is no darkness."

"The strength of a nation lies in its homes."

"The best way to eat an elephant in your path is to cut him up into little pieces."

"He who refuses to obey cannot command."

"It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man."

"Patience is the mother of a beautiful child."

"A good deed is something one returns."

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."

"No matter how tall a tree grows, the leaves always fall to the ground."

"When the moon is not full, the stars shine more brightly."

"A leopard cannot change its spots."

"A village without elders is like a well without water."

"The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them."

"The eye never forgets what the heart has seen."

"A dog with a bone in its mouth cannot bite."

"The axe forgets, but the tree remembers."

#Inspiration #Wisdom #Motivation #LifeLessons #Culture #AfricanProverbs #Quotes #Mindfulness #Unity #Leadership #Teamwork #Reflection #PositiveVibes #SelfImprovement #WiseSayings #Community #Diversity #Learning #Success #Empowerment #Patience #Gratitude #Resilience #CulturalWisdom #Proverbs #Character #Knowledge #Friendship #Balance #OpenMinds

[originalhaffigaza]

#black community #original photographers #black people #graphic design #black art #black culture #artwork #black power #black history #black family #black children #black positivity #black success #black fashion #black tumblr #black woman #black men

[nitw]

it really amazes me that undertale lingers in so many people's childhood/teen nostalgia now in the same way as the retro games that inspired it

#like this is just an undeniable fact. undertale's success was a cultural turning point #leo.txt #ut #undertale

[carmelasoprano]

Bebe Neuwirth as Avis DeVoto in episode 2x07 of Julia, "Shrimp and Grits"

#bebe neuwirth #avis devoto #julia hbo #julia #edit:bebeneuwirth #edit:julia #edit:avisdevoto #* #` #i dearly love looking at this beautiful woman's face #especially as i take breaks from reading about the ubiquity of postfeminist approaches to successful ageing in celebrity culture #as something to be 'managed' so that the body must be constantly surveilled for fear of deviating from #narrow conceptions of normative feminine beauty defined by youthfulness #raise a glass to every woman in the entertainment industry not dyeing her hair‚ going under the knife‚ or being injected with botox #and pour one out for every woman in the entertainment industry who is in an effort to make the most out of an impossible situation that #would limit her financial mobility and career opportunities if she didn't fall into line! #hear‚ hear #i will say though that i think as many women who can afford not to undergo cosmetic surgery as a 'solution' to aging shouldn't #because those who have prestigious enough careers (think meryl streep) can continue to land rolls anyway #and i think more women could leverage their success without resorting to such means #rant over i guess

[st-just]

For example, a show like Succession. We spend much energy and many inches of print and websites talking about the show’s gray morality. The fact that the show follows a set of uber-rich people who do things that feel icky to us, but who, within the world of the show, do not themselves feel icky doing those things. In the world of Succession, the only moral debts that accrue are the interpersonal ones among our cast of characters. That is part of the show’s irony. That they blithely destroy democracy in the background, but look at each other and say not cool when someone is rude to them or lies.

-Brandon Taylor, no redemption arcs in hell

#quote #culture #succession #Brandon Taylor

[cogcltrcorn]

kendall is very lucky that stewy has made being a bad person one of the pillars of his personality because frankly after this shit literally anyone else would send him to hell. but not stewy. not stewy hosseini. stewy doesn't give a fuck. stewy makes a conscious decision to not give a fuck. stewy uses the name stewy. stewy is detached from his cultural identity, and only ever draws attention to it when he has an opportunity to make a joke at its expense. it is something he did on purpose. stewy doesn't give a fuck. he doesn't want to. he is rich and he wants to stay rich and he wants to get richer because wealth grants him immunity and because he time and time again makes a conscious decision not to give a fuck about anyone but himself and his position. the country around him can burn. he is just in it for the money.

he will beat ken's ass for blowing up the deal though

#succession #stewy hosseini #kendall roy #kenstewy #actually stewy having an absolutely insane relationship with his own culture is something I do not see enough people talking about