what if everything that's going wrong is because the late 20th century prosperity waves subjected society to a burden of nouveaux riches unprecedented in history and the resulting self-justification frenzy and preference falsification cascades drove everything completely insane
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Are you saying preference falsifications driven by need to justify their new found wealth? That's the part where I'm not confident in my understanding of your tweet.
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oh, yeah. i'm implicitly claiming that people finding themselves in an elevated social position tend to frantically try to demonstrate that they're The Right Kind Of Person to enjoy that elevated social position, which involves extensive preference falsification
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especially when their upbringing is middle class, the middle class being hilariously devoted to the idea that success is allocated based on being The Right Kind Of Person
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Thanks. Also agreed about the middle class. This book does a hilarious job presenting this sort of anxiety: https://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-System/dp/0671792253 … Despite being old as dirt it's surprisingly relevant and eerily prescient.
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