Isn't this the moral of the (IMO) very conservative "The Incredibles"?
When everyone becomes special then no one is.
Society in 2081 sounds boring.
I had a college journalism prof about 10 years ago who experimented w/ using purple instead of red to grade our stories. She would mark corrections and ask us to correct them and return the corrected articles to her. Well, she found when she used purple, she found the students weren't catching all the errors she wanted corrected. So she went back to red. Like it or not, red gets noticed, which is the point.
I saw that movie a while back with Sean Astin. Very disturbing but a liberals dream.
Too bad they don't take some of that money and some of that time and teach their kids about giving to others instead of focusing on self.
Self esteem is a false pretext. Somebody proud of nothing means nothing. Achievement should always be the goal. Achievement will bring pride and that is selfless esteem.