So-called smart people who are obsessed with Covid-19 precautions and spend all their time worrying about catching it, & who criticize anyone who is not as obsessed and fearful about catching Covid-19 as they are.
According to the Covid slow kids, only a horrible person would go to a funeral for a loved one or attend any event for any reason when they’re all just ways for the virus to spread.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”