Why We Hate Us by Dick Meyer Analysis Essay

📌Category: Books
📌Words: 415
📌Pages: 2
📌Published: 15 January 2022

“Why we hate us” provided a look into first world problems, namely the country who appears to live through them the most, America. Meyer exclaims his perspective on the hypocrisy brewing in recent years through many of our everyday lives. Although this article acts as a form of this spreading hatred and furthers this contradiction, I mainly agree with what Meyer says. 

The majority of the country whether consciously or not lives in a never ending cycle of suffering/hatred. Meyer supplies reasoning for this cycle describing the population growth occurring in the past century. From 1955 to 2005, the population practically doubled. This growth of the nation will inevitably cause more and more reasons to get upset and America specifically faces this crisis. Next Meyer explains “phases” occurring in the country and how each plays a role in where we are today. Starting with the 60s spawned new ideas and increased self expression. This expression paved the way for changing societal views along with sprouting human rights movements. Growing movements combined with phase two allowed for a proper burst into lives of hatred. Phase two characterized the revolution of technology. These advancements single handedly altered our lives and spread of information. Although this new technology greatly changed our lives, we had to learn to adapt to this rapidly changing world we were placed in. 

New waves of information and opinions grew and made it difficult to keep up with everything passing through the internet. Now the country is tackling pleasing others to fit in with perspectives surrounding them rather than making themselves happy. We do not know what we believe anymore and are rather stuck in a cycle of discovering what others think, forcing ourselves to learn what others believe and modeling ourselves on those opinions. Additionally the desires for material goods under our capitalistic society furthers our problems for never ending competition with others. This competition is never to please ourselves but rather ensuing more misery due to this programmed version of what our purpose in life should be. We are taught to work for what we want without guaranteeing success and without reaching a simple form of pleasure aside from our two days off of the week appearing to last a minute. 

Meyer shares the reasons we as a country may hate the rest of us or us simply as individuals. This hatred appears prevalent from our day to day lives. We live our lives in search of this “counterculture” to break apart from what we know without realizing everyone aside us is looking to do the same. We hate one another but if we all just listened more maybe we could learn to at least tolerate one another.

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