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I'm pretty convinced that one of the greatest destructive forces acting on future potential value is a mysterious nebulous anxiety among young people, as though they've already somehow fucked up and they better work really hard on Already Established Good Thing now
Keywords, "mysterious, nebulous." I have my own theories about where this is coming from, but the interesting thing is that the afflicted young folks can't really seem to pin it down themselves, which makes it feel super creepy to me — like some sort of Stephen King villain-fog
how young we talking? this seems like a problem with millennials way more than zoomers honestly
Fear of doing the Good and Right Thing is absolutely paralyzing, especially when Good and Right institutions are themselves so risk averse. Smart people working very hard to produce absolutely nothing.
Is it possible this is a local thing in your specific Bay Area subculture?
Also common in Singapore (can personally verify this), and from what I’ve heard, several major cities in India, China and Africa too. There’s some variance in rate of change, but the underlying phenomenon is widespread IMO
I think the powers over us and feel entirely outside our control are far more visible and evident in the world today. We hold onto our pockets of control like scared dogs guarding food scraps.
Not just young people. This ambient anxiety hurts millennials too. Like I'll never be good enough to do xyz because I wasn't a child protege, or because I didn't go to school for that thing.
I think this is brilliant. Reminds me of this passage from Jung’s student, G. Adler. For me, it put words to why time often hardly matters in great stories, as the end effects the beginning, and the middle changes both.pic.twitter.com/KBaQ25iaGY
I think a lot of this is the effects of social bifurcation. Talented people can rise quickly now, but if they trespass a boundary, there’s no safe liminal zone for them to fall back to.
Highly related: what used to be creative subcultures where one could play around and experiment have now become monetized identities for the social victims of a flattened world. Experimentation threatens the delivery of self-affirming cultural pablum.
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