# Cancel the culture

By [forty4.eth](https://paragraph.com/@forty4) · 2022-02-11

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![I drafted this post almost a month ago but didn't publish because I didn't think it was ready. Or, maybe, \*I\* wasn't ready. I wasn't sure that I wanted to use this space for these types of thoughts. But now, with all planets direct, I'm in the mood to just let it out. It's okay to not be perfect. It's even okay to be flat out wrong. It's NOT okay to be apathetic. Not right now.](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/1cc11693d389070c5fa649ca18f7fa4c05900fec72e750c2e8b7ac9058065bbf.png)

I drafted this post almost a month ago but didn't publish because I didn't think it was ready. Or, maybe, \\\*I\\\* wasn't ready. I wasn't sure that I wanted to use this space for these types of thoughts. But now, with all planets direct, I'm in the mood to just let it out. It's okay to not be perfect. It's even okay to be flat out wrong. It's NOT okay to be apathetic. Not right now.

### Published February 11, 2022

Some are baffled at how an innocent tweet about working hard for success could have snowballed into cancel campaign that involved racism, homophobia and misogyny.

It was not the first instance where this person promoted overworking as, not just an option, but as a necessity for success.

What people aren’t saying enough: **promoting overwork carries the same energy as promoting prejudice**. Call it toxic masculinity, call it whiteness supremacy, call it whatever. It’s the same energy.

Web3 is a revolution. And it shouldn’t just be about tools and technology. It should be about culture. I’m seeing too many people, well intentioned though they may be, rushing to recreate the very same ills we are trying to escape. Unfortunately new tech means that remaking can create a working/business culture orders of magnitude worse, more pernicious than what we’ve already seen.

You may argue that creating something new requires a great deal of sacrifice. I don’t disagree. However, I think that just underscores why we need to be thoughtful about the working culture. The thoughts, energy, intentions, **!vibe** we carry as we create will make up the body of our creation. Companies, products, communities become [egregores](https://theosophy.wiki/en/Egregore). And even if the creators change or have remorse later, that entity lives on with the character given to it at it’s birth. Entities created in a culture that promotes overwork are instatiable monsters that demand people “grind” themselves into dust to feed them.

A few tweets, for context

[https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa/status/1480749116279824384](https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa/status/1480749116279824384)

[https://twitter.com/ObiElledge/status/1480890527830757378](https://twitter.com/ObiElledge/status/1480890527830757378)

Sadly, the quoted tweet may be unavailable to you because the OP had to locked down their account due to harassment. Essentially, they said they were calling out the person for promoting overwork.

[https://twitter.com/ObiElledge/status/1481063320102834177](https://twitter.com/ObiElledge/status/1481063320102834177)

Personally, I’m much less offended by a misguided teen trying to sound cool, than I am by an adult who has simply morphed mysogynistic energy into language that’s more acceptable for the times. Apology is only genuine if you’ve taken the time to really see yourself in the mistake and examine what part of your personality or belief system remains unchanged, even after 10 years.

[https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa/status/1481060726307500038](https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa/status/1481060726307500038)

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*Originally published on [forty4.eth](https://paragraph.com/@forty4/cancel-the-culture)*