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Our
lives
today
are
filled
with
information
from
the
extremes
of
the
bell
curve
of
human
experience
,
because
in
the
media
business
that
’
s
what
gets
eyeballs
,
and
eyeballs
bring
dollars
.
That
’
s
the
bottom
line
.
Yet
the
vast
majority
of
life
resides
in
the
humdrum
middle
.
The
vast
majority
of
life
is
unextraordinary
,
indeed
quite
average
.
This
flood
of
extreme
information
has
conditioned
us
to
believe
that
exceptionalism
is
the
new
normal
.
And
because
we
’
re
all
quite
average
most
of
the
time
,
the
deluge
of
exceptional
information
drives
us
to
feel
pretty
damn
insecure
and
desperate
,
because
clearly
we
are
somehow
not
good
enough
.
So
more
and
more
we
feel
the
need
to
compensate
through
entitlement
and
addiction
.
We
cope
the
only
way
we
know
how
:
either
through
self
-
aggrandizing
or
through
other
-
aggrandizing
.
Some
of
us
do
this
by
cooking
up
get
-
rich
-
quick
schemes
.
Others
do
it
by
taking
off
across
the
world
to
save
starving
babies
in
Africa
.
Others
do
it
by
excelling
in
school
and
winning
every
award
.
Others
do
it
by
shooting
up
a
school
.
Others
do
it
by
trying
to
have
sex
with
anything
that
talks
and
breathes
.
This
ties
in
to
the
growing
culture
of
entitlement
that
I
talked
about
earlier
.
Millennials
often
get
blamed
for
this
cultural
shift
,
but
that
’
s
likely
because
millennials
are
the
most
plugged
-
in
and
visible
generation
.
In
fact
,
the
tendency
toward
entitlement
is
apparent
across
all
of
society
.
And
I
believe
it
’
s
linked
to
mass
-
media
-
driven
exceptionalism
.
The
problem
is
that
the
pervasiveness
of
technology
and
mass
marketing
is
screwing
up
a
lot
of
people
’
s
expectations
for
themselves
.
The
inundation
of
the
exceptional
makes
people
feel
worse
about
themselves
,
makes
them
feel
that
they
need
to
be
more
extreme
,
more
radical
,
and
more
self
-
assured
to
get
noticed
or
even
matter
.
When
I
was
a
young
man
,
my
insecurities
around
intimacy
were
exacerbated
by
all
the
ridiculous
narratives
of
masculinity
circulating
throughout
pop
culture
.
And
those
same
narratives
are
still
circulating
:
to
be
a
cool
guy
,
you
have
to
party
like
a
rock
star
;
to
be
respected
,
you
have
to
be
admired
by
women
;
sex
is
the
most
valuable
thing
a
man
can
attain
,
and
it
’
s
worth
sacrificing
anything
(
including
your
own
dignity
)
to
get
it
.
This
constant
stream
of
unrealistic
media
dogpiles
onto
our
existing
feelings
of
insecurity
,
by
overexposing
us
to
the
unrealistic
standards
we
fail
to
live
up
to
.
Not
only
do
we
feel
subjected
to
unsolvable
problems
,
but
we
feel
like
losers
because
a
simple
Google
search
shows
us
thousands
of
people
without
those
same
problems
.
Technology
has
solved
old
economic
problems
by
giving
us
new
psychological
problems
.
The
Internet
has
not
just
open
-
sourced
information
;
it
has
also
open
-
sourced
insecurity
,
self
-
doubt
,
and
shame
.
