yeah, i agree, there are assholes everywhere. capitalism has just formalized and streamlined how-to-be-an-asshole. but there are other bad systems as well, of course.
Ah, i see now that i was simply defining the word "shame" a bit differently, as i've observed it used in everyday life:
I've held shame to mean "a painful emotion caused by group-pressure that indicates guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety".
What you've been describing as "shame", i've called it insight in practice. Insight is a good thing because it bring with itself reflection and thought, which i also like to call meditation and contemplation. That's what society needs.
What society does not need is group-pressure, because it leads to people behaving right, but for the wrong reasons. Such behavior is short-lived and tends to bite you in the ass when you're most vulnerable. Compare that to college kids who have always been told "no alcohol", and then at college the first thing they do is to enjoy the absence of their parents and drink so much alcohol they go into a coma and to the hospital. Had they been taught the implications that alcohol has on your near-term health and consciousness instead, they might have been wise enough to not drink too much out of themselves. :)
To capitalists, humans are nothing but tools to enrich themselves. That's why it's called "Human Resources". To them, you are literally nothing more: A resource to be exploited, like fruit from a fruit tree. They squeeze out the lemon to sell the juice and then throw the dry shell of the fruit to the composter.
What many rich people have is sociopathy, which means an absence of empathy and understanding for what it means to be human. We must remember to be human, whether you name that "socialism" or just better laws that are made for the people.
In my experience, shame is not a natural emotion at all.
Rather, i've observed shame exclusively stems from somebody saying "shame on you, you shouldn't do that". Thus i infer that shame is a social construct, similar to gender.
Shame should be abolished after all. It is irrational. If there is a good reason for/against something, we should use that reason instead, and create a culture of habits around it.
Find your inner voice and listen to it. Youtube is all crap. Don't listen to parental advice. Teachers are not always right. Listen to your inner voice.
step 1: send your men to a pointless war
step 2: potential mothers realize their sons would only be meat in the meat grinder
step 3: nobody wants to have children anymore
step 4: be confused??
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and can it be cured by garlic?