Dusty Wentworth

I grew up in a world where discipline wasn’t a punishment; it was a principle. You stood when spoken to. You listened when someone wiser spoke. Your word was your bond, and if you failed, you took it quietly, stoically, with the genuine intention to do better next time. Now, I look around and struggle to reconcile the landscape of today with the values I was raised on. I don’t say this with arrogance, but with a kind of baffled sorrow. It feels as though we’re living through a vast social experiment—one that began with noble intentions but is now rapidly unraveling into a nightmare. A world once grounded in shared responsibility and quiet strength now groans under the weight of curated vulnerability, performance-led morality, and the tyranny of the perpetually offended. Take social media—LinkedIn, for example. A platform that once served as a space for professional exchange has become a theatre of virtue signalling. I recently posed a simple question: "What is resilien...