Bring back The Grand Adventure! Culture has lost all its fun. Millennials are the canary in the coal mine, mass hipsterism & pop-pessimism are our death twitcheshttps://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1041721074054918144 …
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Replying to @webdevMason
"Culture has lost all its fun" <-- I usually don't respond to claims like this bc I think ppl don't really mean them. But in case you do mean it, I'm curious which metrics you think are worse? I am skeptical but maybe I'm not understanding the claim.
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Replying to @juliagalef
I *definitely* mean what I've said here — I think it's reflected in the data on entrepreneurship and surveys on how students perceive the meaning of their own education process, but also the shift toward risk-aversion & "safetyism" that's discussed in Jon Haidt's new book.
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Replying to @webdevMason
So the claim is, roughly, “Americans are getting less adventurous / more risk averse” ? Hm, I don't know. The one trend I can think of that I agree indicates lower value on adventure is in the risks parents allow their kids to take...
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Replying to @juliagalef @webdevMason
I’m unconvinced that the rhetoric of “emotional safety” among leftists is actually indicative of lower adventurousness. Seems more like a political tactic. I’m also unsure whether fewer startups = people are less adventurous. But thanks for clarifying, that’s helpful!
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Replying to @juliagalef
I think there is probably a general cluster that “adventurousness” sits within that also includes “rebelliousness,” “novelty-seeking,” etc.
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Replying to @webdevMason @juliagalef
It’s hard to pin facets of that cluster directly to measurables, but what I find interesting about the “emotional safety” movement is that it seems to have flipped youth rebellion on its head; the young are policing the offensive behavior of their elders
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Replying to @AndrewCutler13 @juliagalef
I honestly don't see much evidence in the current culture that any "explore" phase remains
2:39 PM - 17 Sep 2018
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