One useful lens for understanding the millennial identity crisis is the simultaneous thinning-out, dissolution or disruption of long-standing social substrates for intimacy, self-development & meaningful work.
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What can anyone do with all this? I don't know. But I really like
@EricRWeinstein's closing comments from his recent appearance on the MIT Artificial Intelligence podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wq9x2QcZN0 …pic.twitter.com/LYzwd7u5o8
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"You really want to court authoritarian control in our society because you can’t see that people may not be able to defend themselves in the marketplace because the marginal product of their labor is too low to feed their dignity as a soul?"pic.twitter.com/XzhCUyVh2L
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You're in a cheerful mood this morning!
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I think your love line is spot on. It's hard to identify where young peoples' cynicism about love comes from, but a lack of strong models from family and early life relationships seems key. Many just seem to not believe romantic love is possible. But how new is that?
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A very interesting analysis. It's bits like this that make me want to delete Twitter less.
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Regarding plummeting marriage/sex rates, any hypos as to why this is occurring? On an int level, I often feel that our recent sedentary lifestyle kills those natural drives. We spent eons as highly physical hunter-bots, and now we spend our time staring into glowing rectangles.
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To be clear, that's only one of the phenomena I believe might be responsible for this.
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Crushing loneliness would be one.
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