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This was roughly the popular premium mediocre life script, 1993-2015 Be the chosen one If you can’t be chosen one work at the It company If you can’t do that live in happening city If not, at least the country it is in If not, at least work in the sector that makes it exciting
One of the best things universities do is give you 4 years to try to break out from dominant scripts in the zeitgeist. If it wasn’t for college, everybody in my high school class would have tried to be a programmer and 90% would have been terrible at it.
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Of course there are It universities too, but they tend to take centuries to build reputations and decades to lose it, so they tend to have stable narrative background roles over a couple of decades
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Emerging default script: you’re born chosen, doing the thing you were meant to do, in the place you were meant to do it, and already know the people you should do it with. And your family can tell you all you need to know. If you’re unhappy it’s the fault of outsiders.
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