Are NTs/humans becoming more easily offended as time passes?

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There's another rather dark take I've heard from one of the relatively red pill / MGTOW channels I occasionally listen to (Aaron Clarey) but I think he might be on to something. The idea is that, especially in the US, we've opened everything up for people to climb Maslow's hierarchy of needs, that if someone's willing to work for true self-fulfillment the sky's the limit, however most people are lazy and want it all given to them (yet they resent anyone who won't treat them like kings and queens), thus the peak of their heirarchy, rather than self-actualization in any deep or profound sense, is the highest-level fad consumer good called 'Being lied to'. In this context being lied to isn't about being scammed in a way that the costs come home and hit you tomorrow, sort of the 'a sucker is born every minute', but lies that can keep you feeling like you're a minor deity rather than just a normal person for decades before the costs actually come in.

Some examples - it's the 'I can have my cake and eat it too' mentality, or 'I can make whatever mistakes I make, in my greatness, and just externalize the costs on other people later'. Similarly the grabbier and more entitled aspects of socialism tend to be reacted to and utilized this way. Anyone who says 'You can have it all' is cashing in on this impulse.

People don’t want to directly offend or hurt somebody; that’s why there’s “ghosting.”

Ghosting is a punk’s way out—but it’s understandable on a certain level.

People have more of a tendency, these days, not to be resilient enough to just “move on.”

There's more opportunity for us to be offended, because of the constant bombardment of social media and international news. Centuries ago people got butt-hurt by their immediate neighbours but didn't know what people on the other side of the planet were saying about their breakfast choices, hair colour, or personal opinions.

There's also a huge emphasis on self-expression and self-identity now, as opposed to following the church (or any type of religious scripture), and towing the line for conformity.

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I don't blame the left or the right particularly. I think it's just a sad part of human nature, that people in general tend to make up arbitrary rules and they fail to weigh up the harm and good those rules might do before they unleash them onto everybody.

And social climbing is emphatically NOT what autistic people are interested in. So I think that these days we are seen as no-hopers because we don't know how to schmooze and be fake so we can climb the social ladder.