context: probably back in my school days when i saw some classmates doing more PR than lasting effects. it's like 'we reached out to 999 people in need' vs '999 people were lifted out of poverty through our organisation's efforts' kind of thing.
i mean... flowers can't save the world, you know?
it's honestly something like a circlejerk. the kind of circlejerk where they sit around and jerk off their do-gooder egos while leaving minimum impact on the world.
ugh, i mean. they ARE trying to do good. but it's in an ineffectual way. and then they feel good about it.
and it makes me so angry. how dare you. feel good about doing jackshit.
okay, that might be a bit too harsh. what i mean is, how dare they overestimate the impact of their actions. how dare they be so naive and satisfied with that naivety? how dare everyone else allow them to stop there?
and, my real question is: do they really want to do good, if they're satisfied with stopping at that ineffectual point?
so let me go back to the point that i started with.
i feel like this do-gooder attitude of theirs is way too perfect. so conventionally perfect that i honestly don't believe that's how they're really like as a person. i... maybe i have too much faith in their abilities, but having known them as classmates, i feel like they are definitely capable of thinking beyond that do-gooder circlejerk.
i feel like, on some level, they're aware that what they're doing leaves no lasting impact. and i believe that, at least part of the reason for why they're doing whatever project that they're doing, is for the applause.
but they.. just don't say it. they... pretend that, well, they truly buy into the do-gooder circlejerk. and i think they pretend to themselves too.
and i just, i think about all the wasted things that went into this circlejerk.
the time that they took to interview people for their project. the time spent on designing whatever promotional picture. the time that everyone else took to read and praise them.
it actually makes me angry because those things are so empty, and those things could've done so much more in the hands of someone who didn't pretend superficial "spreading awareness" projects can save the world, in the hands of someone who was trying to help in a practical way.
i mean, if you don't really care about those underprivileged people, please don't pretend to be. it's a waste, and it's cruel.
those people that i'm talking about, they talk about being so excited to help people and to right all the wrongs of the world, but they're not doing much more than me, in reality. BUT the difference is that they expect and receive praise for their meaningless efforts.
i did say that maybe i was just being bitter but really...
please direct your praise to someone more worthy.
if you praise people for doing inconsequential things, then they feel like they've done enough and they stop there. there's no benefit to anything or anyone other than their egos.
so ultimately, what i wanted to say is that i hate people who pretend to be a perfect little do-gooder but actually do nothing at all. if you're going to put all that effort into something to prove that you're a do-gooder, then at least put that effort into something useful and productive.
it's part of a bigger principle like,
don't do anything that has no utility. everything has a utility. but if you can't identify the utility of an action, please don't do it. because then you'll waste effort and do meaningless things and not accomplish anything because you weren't even sure what you wanted in the first place.
/grits teeth
i just wish that everyone would think clearly before doing things. at least justify it to yourself, come on. it's pathetic when you rally some force to do something, but then someone questions the principles/reasoning behind your actions and the whole thing falls apart. if that's going to be the end result then why did you waste all that time gathering a force and preparing things!
!!
i REALLY hate waste and inefficiency. and this do-gooder jerk circle is nothing but trash.
i could deal with do-gooders. their attitude annoys me but they do good. the circlejerk, on the other hand, needs to be put into the burnable trash.
so, tl;dr: don't put on a do-gooder front, be an actual do-gooder
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