Hypothesis: global sights lowering. People generally becoming less ambitious.
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The thing I've been seeing among my cohort of favorite people my age is our ambitions have become less legible.
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What kind of ambition do you have in mind? Like innovation, personal wealth, or fame, or ?
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How does this relate to the relative rise of collectivism? Ambition seems to be becoming less fashionable where it is associated with capitalism & contrasted against feminism. (I personally find those associations to be ofc. oversimplified, but I feel like that’s what I’ve seen.)
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Well the Soviet Union did get to space first and China is very ambitious so collectivism does not obviously preclude ambition
Dunno about feminism. It doesn’t seem powerful enough yet to be a factor. But aging population might be.
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It’s all about the situation. The big post war possibilities have either been realised or we’ve realised they’re unattainable. Climate will give us the next big mountain to climb. Watch wandering earth and tell me they are less ambitious...
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Climate is not a mountain to climb. It’s a hole to climb out of. Way less fun.
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