Are you saying I can outsource my shit-giving activities?
Sign me up. I've been unable to give a shit for quite some time. I wish I could give a shit, but the world has become a pretty ugly place, in large part because of deliberate attempts to demoralize those who give a shit.
You see it all over the place on social media. People do a weak-ass form of shit-giving in the form of "raising awareness", the least conceivable level of effort for something you wish you could give a shit about, but don't actually give a shit.
Of course even if somebody tried to GaSaaS, the space would promptly fill with people giving as few shits as possible for as much money as possible. Too many major charities do that: they'll take your money and spend it mostly on advertising for other people to give their money, too, and very little on the things you'd expect if they actually gave a shit.
I know TFA is more about the business sense of giving a shit, but I'd love to see somebody able to give a shit in a larger sense. Unfortunately, I can't give a shit because it seems nobody gives a shit any more -- except the people who are passionately devoted to making sure other people feel miserable instead.
IMNTBHO, it started with Google. They pioneered the idea of embedding themselves DEEPLY into our lives (email!), while absolutely not giving any shits about it at all. There NEVER was a number to call if something went wrong. Can't get your POP or IMAP settings right? Fuck you! You lost your password? Fuck you! Someone stole your account? Fuck you! There's no recourse for any problem unless you're important enough to raise a stink about it on a social media platform. Then EVERYONE saw that their businesses were no longer constrained by having to give a shit any more, and it's just been all downhill ever since.
Our culture is in love with bullshitting. If you can bullshit to get what you want (ostensibly), then you're the man. Notice how getting away with things is glorified. It's like you managed to hack the Matrix or steal the cookie from the cookie jar your mommy didn't want you to touch. It's the childish satisfaction that you're hot shit because you got past the grown ups.
Of course, you can get away with a lot of bad things. The question is: should you do such things? The answer is: no. No one of any sense of dignity will lie, cheat, steal, or bullshit. No one who know how harmful it is to themselves to do such things will do them. It is beneath them and their love themselves too much to want to harm themselves. It's degrading. Wine won through illicit means tastes like urine anyway, if it tastes like anything at all. It's like the devil has offered you a glass of Chateau Lafite under the condition that you hand him your taste buds, or that you let him take a dump in it first.
Give a shit about things worth giving a shit to the degree that they are worthy of being given a shit about. Don't worry about approval from others. Virtue is its own reward. Don't whine. Don't be envious.
Sign me up. I've been unable to give a shit for quite some time. I wish I could give a shit, but the world has become a pretty ugly place, in large part because of deliberate attempts to demoralize those who give a shit.
You see it all over the place on social media. People do a weak-ass form of shit-giving in the form of "raising awareness", the least conceivable level of effort for something you wish you could give a shit about, but don't actually give a shit.
Of course even if somebody tried to GaSaaS, the space would promptly fill with people giving as few shits as possible for as much money as possible. Too many major charities do that: they'll take your money and spend it mostly on advertising for other people to give their money, too, and very little on the things you'd expect if they actually gave a shit.
I know TFA is more about the business sense of giving a shit, but I'd love to see somebody able to give a shit in a larger sense. Unfortunately, I can't give a shit because it seems nobody gives a shit any more -- except the people who are passionately devoted to making sure other people feel miserable instead.