30-year-olds cruising bars for no-strings hook-ups are less a sign of cultural decadence than of pessism, visionlessness & desperation When people are doing what you’d expect if an asteroid were going to hit the earth in 24 hours, it’s not because they’re too happy
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"Living moderately happy" and avoiding hard work is not an excellent strategy for the only life one has to live
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I guess at a certain point I’ll throw my hands up and say “okay, a certain percentage of humans really do want all sorts of things.” From the other end, watching people who’ve aged out of the local bar culture troll for inebriated flings doesn’t make it look all that fun
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My view on this is not uncontroversial: I think people who would broadly prefer to sleep with people who they will not see again are actually very unusual, and it’s cultural messaging + endemic pessimism that leads people to internalize the idea that this is actually pretty great
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Yes, I assumed so. Having spent a lot of time with extremely ambitious & successful people with a wide range of goals, I think you’re wrong insofar as you believe you’re describing anything more than a set of outliers. But per my usual: you do you
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