Because of the COVID pandemic in 2020, all schools switched over to a business meeting app called "Zoom" to teach. Note that the app also lets you turn off your camera, microphone, and 90% of the time the teacher doesn't give a shit what you're doing anyways. This was CLEARLY a great idea.
Grandma: How was school, sonny?
Graduate: I'm glad I learned nothing this year on ZoomUniversity!
When most, if not all, of your classes take place online while predominantly relying on the video conferencing platformZoom. We can all thank Covid-19 for this mess.
“Dude I barely learn anything with online classes and half of my professors don’t even know what they’re doing. Zoom University is a joke.”
“Agreed. If I knew all of my classes would be forced to go online again at the last minute I would’ve stayed home this fall. I’m tired of this Zoom University shit and can’t wait for everything to be normal again.”
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.”