Does authentic accomplishment matter to younger Americans?

Beto Pancho is the embodiment of social media culture

Pratt on TexasAmong the results of the unrestrained coddle-the-children movement in which true accomplishment was downplayed for the fakery of everyone getting a trophy for everything, is that many Americans do not seem to recognize the difference between laudable achievement and the ephemeral nature of being noticed or fame.

When a country of parents, at least legally so, youth, and politicians decry online cyber bullying as a crisis, you realize that a huge number of people ascribe power to social media via the Internet that it inherently does not have. The Internet and social media can no more put you in danger of bullying than the existence of high speed freeways put you in danger of a traffic accident. No one has to use social media and no parent has to allow their children access to the rot that so often lurks online in social media accounts.

…which makes me wonder if they reject the value of real accomplishment or, if they simply disregard the importance of such.

But it is clear that most younger Americans do spend a good deal of time on social media sites and it has also become clear that a significant number of them actually give emotional concern to what those who are in reality strangers, think of them.

It seems Beto Pancho O’Rourke is a political product of this online culture. His resume shows him to be an inconsequential person who has only been made consequential through people feeling as if they are close to him by watching his online live streamed videos and seeing others “like” him on social media.

Beto Pancho is the embodiment of social media fame. He’s a political Kardashian – famous only for people who don’t actually know him but feel as if they are his real “friends” by interacting with him online. And those folk are quite emotionally tied to him which makes me wonder if they reject the value of real accomplishment or, if they simply disregard the importance of such.

Hell, they got trophies for losing growing up too.

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