05-06-2022, 02:50 AM
Also, fwiw, "we need more focus on masculinity" does not equal "we don't need women playing important roles" ("let's exclude 50% of the population from contributing to the solution" is simply not a practical approach to anything). Similarly, even as a right winger, I get the cynicism about the political power wielded by corporations, but I think we still have far too much focus on "punish the rich" and less on "how can we empower the disenfranchised to build more for themselves?
pbrower2a made a post a few weeks ago about "more capitalism" in the form of creating better opportunities for people to start small businesses. this is what we need more of in the 1T. This is how we "make America great again" (to our credit, Millennials are actually a fairly entrepreneurial generation).
as per Eric the Green's comments, millennials are reasonably good at organizing things (boomers are not. imo, Idealist generations in general are notoriously bad at organization, and this is a lot of what exasperates the problems of 3Ts and leads to the saecular Winter of the 4T), but I don't think we're very courageous. What courage we do have almost reminds me of small children: feeling very good about themselves for courageously overcoming tasks that an adult shouldn't really find scary in the first place, like "The Ugly Duckling" or "The Little Engine That Could".
With that said, I don't believe America is deprived of culture. Our culture is about entrepreneurship, blazing new frontiers, defending liberties. We are the only country in the world which unironically believes "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!". Facing challenges head on is supposed to be what we're best at. Adversarial grit is in our blood**, and the sooner we get back in touch with these roots, the sooner we can pull ourselves out of this mess.
**literally. we're descended from over a dozen generations of the most individualistic, trailblazing, entrepreneurial specimens of the gene pool. If we took the time to study it, I think we'd see that Americans are more prone to individualism, risk taking and adventure down to our very genes.
pbrower2a made a post a few weeks ago about "more capitalism" in the form of creating better opportunities for people to start small businesses. this is what we need more of in the 1T. This is how we "make America great again" (to our credit, Millennials are actually a fairly entrepreneurial generation).
as per Eric the Green's comments, millennials are reasonably good at organizing things (boomers are not. imo, Idealist generations in general are notoriously bad at organization, and this is a lot of what exasperates the problems of 3Ts and leads to the saecular Winter of the 4T), but I don't think we're very courageous. What courage we do have almost reminds me of small children: feeling very good about themselves for courageously overcoming tasks that an adult shouldn't really find scary in the first place, like "The Ugly Duckling" or "The Little Engine That Could".
With that said, I don't believe America is deprived of culture. Our culture is about entrepreneurship, blazing new frontiers, defending liberties. We are the only country in the world which unironically believes "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!". Facing challenges head on is supposed to be what we're best at. Adversarial grit is in our blood**, and the sooner we get back in touch with these roots, the sooner we can pull ourselves out of this mess.
**literally. we're descended from over a dozen generations of the most individualistic, trailblazing, entrepreneurial specimens of the gene pool. If we took the time to study it, I think we'd see that Americans are more prone to individualism, risk taking and adventure down to our very genes.
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