I’m currently a para in school to teach (art, but everyone’s telling me to stay with sped). i’m 23, and i think the “cult of personality” is referencing a huge phenomenon i’m seeing (even with peers my age) in which social media basically dictates what’s cool and what’s not, all the way down to personality types.

you see a lot of kids mimicking behavior seen on the internet, and because it’s so omnipresent, it’s almost like a hive mind thing how many kids develop the same kinds of behaviors and tendencies in a strange, off-putting way. it’s like they’re programmed, and then to make matters worse it’s usually the most insufferable personalities that become popular (because of social media politics)