Hey Pandas, What's The Biggest Lie Society Tells Us? (Closed)

Work hard, be a decent individual, and everything will come to you.

"Respect your elders". Well, Charles Manson is older than me. Let's change that to "Respect people who have shown character and integrity. "

Money isn’t everything! You just need it to have a roof over your head….have food to eat….have clean water…have electricity…have internet….basically you need it for everything. Okay money is actually everything.

That everybody can make it and get a happy life. Some of us fail at life and no matter how hard we worked, how much we studied or how badly we tried we get nowhere in life.

That America is the best/was the best. Truth is we aren’t and never were and we need to keep growing and pivoting.

That if you fail to adapt to the norms of society, you are somewhat less worthy and it's you, as an individual, to blame.

That, as a woman, I will for sure eventually want to have kids. And that if I don’t, I will never feel truly happy and fulfilled.

The school will help you when you're bullied

You can be/do anything when you grow up. B.S. - I've been training for years and I am still no closer to being a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle!

You have to fit the beaty standards to be respected/enjoy life. Big boobs, tiny waist, impossibly skinny etc.

That it’s rude to point out when elders are wrong

(Biological) family is everything.

How if we work hard we will be fine yet most people work hard and yet they have so many problems it's crazy.

That if you treat someone good they will treat you the same way

That mental health originates solely from an individual and not the circumstances or society.

Any of the lies we're encouraged to believe that imply a karmic fairness to life.

that it gets better

You need makeup to look good. (you don't really, it's just an 'extension pack' to one's looks);

You can't do art for a job. (art is pretty much part of many jobs. Art isn't limited to just a paintbrush and canvas. Like architecture, graphic design, website design, culinary, book illustration, etc.)

That going to uni/college is super important.

That it always makes sense to look at “both sides” of an argument. Leaving aside that many arguments and controversies very complex are not simple binaries, many other arguments don’t have valid “other sides.” Want to argue the Earth is flat. Wrong, you’re a gullible fool, and you’re wasting everyone’s time. Want to argue that anthropogenic climate change is not a real thing? Wrong, simply wrong. Want to argue that white people are superior to people of color. Go f*** yourself, you have nothing. Often, the other side of an argument is just a blowhard fool or hateful racist or disingenuous pundit (looking at you, Tucker Carlson, you epic wanker) just looking for screen time or money or “likes”, and they literally have nothing of substance to offer.