Neoliberalism: Its Anonymity Slowly Destroys Humanity The birth of Facebook ignited human selfishness. Since 2004, the social media platform unceasingly has stripped the culture and exposed human cruelty. Facebook, or any other social medium, evaluates individuals by the number of likes they receive or the number of followers they have — thus, creating an “It’s-all-about-me-I-should-be-better-than-anybody-else” era. This is neoliberalism. The epidemic continues to spread and as a result, it pulls society apart causing predicaments in the economic, political, and social realm. Neoliberalism, an ideology foreign to many, sees selfishness as a way of life which gradually but immensely contributes to mankind’s destruction. The nativity of the ideology of neoliberalism occurred in 1938 at a meeting in Paris. Delegates Ludwig von Miss and Friedrich Hayek established the ideology and both saw democracy on the same altitude as Nazism and Communism (Monbiot, 2016). Several perceive democracy as the antithesis of Nazism or Communism, since people possess autonomy wherever they go. Liberty, however, breeds selfishness.
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Since social media has emerged, the war against each other constantly exacerbates — turning the world into a much more compassionless habitat. The belief of individualism as the most pragmatic thing to execute is, “…the most absurd and perhaps the most dangerous. We stand together or we fall apart” (Monbiot, 2016). In every aspect of life, the lack of compassion generates a dilemma. Sometimes the skies are gray — people forget compassion heals the wound. The late Morrie Schwartz reveres the ideology, “Be compassionate. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place” (Albom, 1997). In the 21st century, the idea of pretending the other half of the world does not exist seems preposterous, even if Trump says
Since social media has emerged, the war against each other constantly exacerbates — turning the world into a much more compassionless habitat. The belief of individualism as the most pragmatic thing to execute is, “…the most absurd and perhaps the most dangerous. We stand together or we fall apart” (Monbiot, 2016). In every aspect of life, the lack of compassion generates a dilemma. Sometimes the skies are gray — people forget compassion heals the wound. The late Morrie Schwartz reveres the ideology, “Be compassionate. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place” (Albom, 1997). In the 21st century, the idea of pretending the other half of the world does not exist seems preposterous, even if Trump says