Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

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 …

"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.

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.

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...

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!

I think there is probably a general cluster that “adventurousness” sits within that also includes “rebelliousness,” “novelty-seeking,” etc.