We Weren’t Always as Good as We Are Now, so What?

There's no shame in crawling before we can walk, and no sense in shaming ourselves for doing so

As human beings, we accept that we will go through a physical and mental maturing process, but we often forget that we also go through a spiritual and emotional maturing process as well. Monkey Business Images/Shuttertock

There’s something profoundly disturbing going on in our culture right now. Well, truth be told, there are a multitude of profoundly disturbing things going on. But at the center of our toxic culture is a rapidly metastasizing and malignant sense of entitlement—righteousness. And specifically, the right to cast judgment.

As a society, we have become astoundingly judgmental. We feel entitled and emboldened to cast judgment on absolutely everything and everyone. We not only judge what everyone is saying, doing, and believing right now, but we judge what everyone said, did, and believed throughout history. We feel entitled to criticize and condemn those who came before us, specifically, for being less aware and evolved than we are now. We shame who we used to be, and at the same time, deny that that’s who we were.