Humility is a lie: a construction of society

If lying is bad and cheating is bad, then how come we work so hard to make sure people lie and cheat? Do you know the little white lies? An example of this is how we force others to be humble, but why is it so that we can feel good about ourselves? Shouldn’t we really want to know when someone is confident, capable, and capable? Why so much pretense, why is it considered a virtue?

In many cases, humility is a lie, it is purposely downplaying one’s abilities, since when is lying honorable? Pretending to be nothing when you are something is to hold your cards very close to the vest. Why? Going through life at a level of super humility can give someone the edge in a cunning Machaivell way, but it is still living a lie, the lie of political correctness.

In fact, I’m not the first to mention this, many dead white men, barely humble, with academic arrogance by today’s standards, have noticed the same thing. I would tell you that the majority of 80% of people demand humility mainly because it is the norm of society, the status quo, there is no need to think beyond that request, or because they have not done anything and do not want anyone to give up. account. they wear an empty suit.

Humility is not a natural behavior, rather, it is a learned behavior, a social construction. Curiously, nowadays, with all the talk of “equality”, it is even more so. Is that really a good thing? We are not all born equal, we all have a different predisposed gene set, nature, and during our life experience we develop abilities that differentiate us from one another simply through varied experiences, again those skill sets distinguish us. If we know the abilities of others, that is a good thing, it will help society to collaborate and move faster, but if we run around hiding what we are good at, how can we help each other with our abilities to achieve goals?

On most social media, everyone seeks self-validation, but they never try to go too far as they don’t want to cross the line too much, just a little bit to get attention, otherwise they are afraid of appearing less than humble. I think LinkedIn is a good system, since you can see everyone’s resume. If people were really humble, they would never prepare resumes, they would never give acceptance speeches, they would never accept an award or even a promotion for a job well done. Finally, the ego, well, there is nothing wrong, as long as you know who you are, what you are capable of and where to improve. An earned ego is a positive trait, but I don’t see how deception and white lies are in the same category.