It certainly isn't all of them, but a devastating number of young-ish people across multiple generations have been raised to value the Jewish dream. I'm not being ironic.
I did the college thing. I saw this transformation taking place or could put it together with just a bit of digging into statistics re: college admissions.
Most young people today think the dream is being hired to do desk work. Finance. We were taught our entire lives that "using your head" was tantamount to not doing any labor and landing a "college educated" type of career.
It has become a status symbol to work solely with abstractions. The highest paid jobs literally manipulate code, and allocations, and contracts. Becoming a finance guy is a meme for God's sake. So, you become someone who speculates on future states of affairs for the prices of assets and securities.
Think about this in the big picture of human history.
You're absolutely right that most people are simply larping. We are farm animals that are satisfied that the war we need to fight involves screaming at the other animals about values none of us really have. Total virtual reality.
And then we wonder why there are people in the world who will treat us like animals. You get what you fuckin deserve.
The same guys who will trot out the trad values are the ones walking around constantly dressed like they're on a boat smugly discussing their 401k performance and what neighborhoods they want to move into.
Conservatives want other people to embody their values just as much as leftists do. Ain't nobody wanna give up their ticket on this train. So it will keep chugging along.
Like a bunch of toy poodles barking at a garbage truck outside. No real idea what they're even doing. It's just instinct. Now, open the door and see if they'll go outside. And possibly get abandoned by the master? Yeah right.
CHIRO 1 points 5 hours ago
It certainly isn't all of them, but a devastating number of young-ish people across multiple generations have been raised to value the Jewish dream. I'm not being ironic.
I did the college thing. I saw this transformation taking place or could put it together with just a bit of digging into statistics re: college admissions.
Most young people today think the dream is being hired to do desk work. Finance. We were taught our entire lives that "using your head" was tantamount to not doing any labor and landing a "college educated" type of career.
It has become a status symbol to work solely with abstractions. The highest paid jobs literally manipulate code, and allocations, and contracts. Becoming a finance guy is a meme for God's sake. So, you become someone who speculates on future states of affairs for the prices of assets and securities.
Think about this in the big picture of human history.
You're absolutely right that most people are simply larping. We are farm animals that are satisfied that the war we need to fight involves screaming at the other animals about values none of us really have. Total virtual reality.
And then we wonder why there are people in the world who will treat us like animals. You get what you fuckin deserve.
The same guys who will trot out the trad values are the ones walking around constantly dressed like they're on a boat smugly discussing their 401k performance and what neighborhoods they want to move into.
Conservatives want other people to embody their values just as much as leftists do. Ain't nobody wanna give up their ticket on this train. So it will keep chugging along.
Like a bunch of toy poodles barking at a garbage truck outside. No real idea what they're even doing. It's just instinct. Now, open the door and see if they'll go outside. And possibly get abandoned by the master? Yeah right.