The opposite of seriousness would be frivolity: not taking dangers seriously, dicking around with superficial matters, fiddling while Rome burns.
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“We have a seriousness deficit” is a meme: you see it in the “state capacity” discourse, in talk about “decadence”, in pretty much everything Peter Thiel has ever written. Preppers have always been big on it.
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I have a weird relationship to that meme because I more or less believe it’s true, but I’d like to minimize the amount I personally *need* to be serious. Responsibility is exhausting.
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