Trash Everywhere (Bring Back Shame)

I don’t know when it happened, but at some point a huge number of people just stopped caring about throwing literal garbage all over the ground, out of car windows, in parking lots, even inside buildings.

There will be a garbage can like 10 feet away, yet somebody throws trash on the floor instead. It makes no sense to me. Why do you want to live in filth?

There are probably some people that will blame a shift in city populations, mass migration, etc, and it’s possible some of that is at play. But I think a bigger factor is just that people have no shame about this anymore.

We need to bring back shame. Gen Z and Gen Alpha sure have none. They will think it’s funny to stream “pranks” going up and slapping people in the face or acting like they stole money from unsuspecting shoppers by playing fake Apple Pay noises. I guess it’s a little funny? But more so it’s just pathetic unemployed behavior. How about actually get up and work? How about stop leaving trash everywhere?

The nihilistic view of the world that many of them hold is leading to lower and lower trust societies. Let’s not become boomers and blame the kids for everything. It is our responsibility to bring back shame and show people that there is a beautiful culture and high-trust environment to uphold, otherwise we’re just contributing to its decay.