it's really not just that I don't like what I read on the internet. it's not just the shitposters and trolls getting to me. the community I live in is actually worse than it was 5 years ago, 10 years ago in tangible ways and I'm sitting on a pile of privilege. others feel it more
I said "the root of the problem is that we, as a culture, never figured out what we're doing here" If you have something to say about that I'm all ears
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Little to argue with that part. It was followed by "We built consumerism first and let everything else fall apart". You also had references to "privilege", requisite anti-Trump signalling. I'm open too, but it is hard because those things strongly signal some premature closure.
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when I reference privilege I mean my relatively comfortable middle-class lifestyle. Many of my generational peers are struggling a lot more than I am. when I reference Trump it is meant to eliminate the distraction of talking about Trump, since there's nothing to learn there.
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and when I talk about consumerism I'm honestly expressing my view of what has been the central animating project of American life. the thing we've built bigger, better, faster, more impressively scaled then any other people before us is our consumer driven economy.
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when people say "the U.S. is the wealthiest country in the history of the world" what they really mean is that we consume more than any other people ever have.
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there are many other things that America has tried to do. Have we been as successful at them? Whatever the case, we need something new to do now. I'm complaining because we're at each other's throats over petty bullshit and nobody seems to have a good idea about what comes next
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As an aside, I favor the discriminating use of political membership sign words. You used those words in a way that completely makes sense. Also good to throw in some red tribe words like responsibility. Demand ppl think about what we mean, don't abandon semantic territory.
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