Growing up in Asia, we were never told we were inherently ‘special’ as kids.

The only real way to be that was relentless hard work and sacrifice for the communal good.

I always used to think this was an unfortunate, even unhealthy, thing.

Until I came across anti-maskers.

If you are so convinced of your own ‘specialness’, being contrarian is all you need to feel even more so.

This can make people listening to you feel the same thing, which can of course make doing so very profitable.

Maybe it’s time we revisit rewarding this. Esp in the media.

Maybe, realising that people are currently being paid handsomely to profiteer from death is the wake up call we needed?