This is the Primary Motivational Pathway for normies.
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate @eigenrobot
A little girl wants to be treated like X. Disney movies show princesses treated like that. The little girl now wants to be a princess.
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And this extra level of indirection actually means greater strength than the direct "want X".
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But I think the idea of "female role models" or "POC role models" is overblown. Lots of people have idealizations very different from them.
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And idealizations is the right term, not "role models", because the reality of the person in question tends to be irrelevant.
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It took me a long time to understand all this, because I don't work this way.
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Interesting. My way of looking at it is/has been: people mostly plan their lives around narratives, and more or less become tropes.
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It's obviously not Correct, but it's close enough and also efficient and satisfying So I'm happy to embrace it
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So your view is people say my story will be: "I go to college then get a job" while mine is "I become a College Graduate" ?
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That's a pretty interesting dichotomy IMO.
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Yeah or even I will be the Sort of Person who has gone to college Maybe there are stories about jobs those people get, but: incidental
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