Margaret Mead's The Egalitarian Terror

In the passage “The Egalitarian Terror” , author Margaret Mead believes that many a lot Americans are confused about success.We admire other people's success and accomplishments that don't mean anything to us yet envy the ones that do. When a famous person wins an award people tend to be proud of them and celebrate their success but we show jealousy toward the ones that are close by.Despite what others believe, Margaret’s argument is reasonable, success is taken as a contest and a threat by our classmates, neighbors or friends however they are pleased by celebrities, politician or athletes success. Success may cause hatred and jealousy to others. A lot of the times parents like to compare.They compare their youngest child to their
oldest child or even their friends child,For example, at the end of the semester when progress reports came out and my parents check my grades.If they see any Cs they sometimes start talking about their friends daughter and how smart and successful she’ll be.Instead of being positive and saying you can do better next time,they compare me to my friends and classmates.This causes jealousy and to think of their hard work as a threat and a competition and negative interaction. Mead’s states that we tend to “admire the one who gets the highest grades, the one voted most attractive or most likely to succeed.” which I agree.When we see someone we know doing good we think less of ourselves which creates hatred toward that successful person.For example, most of my friends received their permits and I haven't yet.I have no hatred towards my friends but when they tell me about i feel upset and jealous.Part of life is wish for what we don't have.We wish for other people success and want succeed over them, but celebrate when our favorite celebrity wins something. Although being successful is a wonderful and optimistic thing, it frighten by the ones that are close.In todays world, we are taught to watch and keep up with famous celebrities on social media and televison.For example, the show keeping up with kardashians.Many teenagers watch the show and believe they are perfect.For instants,at the age of seveteen Kylie Jenner, had her own car and house yet people seemed to be fine with it.If she wasn’t famous people would critize her.People celebarte famous rich people who are as successful as their distant and celebarte their success but envy the ones that are close by. In conclusion, Margetts Mead’s is agreeable since success cause envy, hatred and competition to the attainable people because it directly affects them.It afeccts how we think and feel about ourselves.Everyone wants to be successul which forces everone to desire to be successful that cause people to consider success of other people they know as a threat and competetion and not hardwork.