While this is a fictional skit, is it really that far from reality?
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“Don’t normalize this, Kenji!”
Ha ha ha h ah aaaahahaha … good stuff. And far better acting skill than little Greta
I smell tribe.
Totally spot on. Social gatherings in my condo, Meetup group hikes, even dates in the 45-to-50-ish cohort are all like this. I am guessing that it is the dopamine hit of instant (assumed) acceptance through shared outrage that these people are seeking. There is definitely something going on here, a viral moral panic and mass delusion.
Or shared self-interest.
How many people in that circle of yours could easily support themselves working outdoors building, making or growing something useful?
Trump is leading the workers’ and peasants’ revolution the left always claimed to want but of which they always lived in mortal fear. Real workers and peasants never had any use for communists except as target practice.
What are you talking about AC ? It’s real WORK … and “struggle” to nick the labors off the real workers. Constant protests, and puppet-building exercises.
A Canadian wrote —
How many people in that circle of yours could easily support themselves working outdoors building, making or growing something useful?
It’s funny that you mention that as the first draft of my comment included a paragraph noting that the derangement syndrome appears to be more prevalent among the people I know with soft jobs. Those who have skilled dirty jobs tend to be less nuts. Those who are primarily knowledge workers are pretty nuts. Government workers are totally batpoop crazy insane with the Social Justice and the Orange Man Bad. I think you are totally correct: I think those whose jobs results in a physical, working, deliverable outcome are more stable.
Now, full disclosure: I too have a soft job. Could I work a trade? Although a little old for it now, I believe I could. I certainly do trade-like work in my spare time for fun or as a volunteer. As for that “circle of [mine]”, I would not describe these people as being in my circle. Sure, they are in my circle of hell, but only because they live in my building or because I have to work with them.
…soft jobs elicit the words, “my colleagues and I”…(or maybe that’s my bias against stuffed shirts.)
“Don’t normalize this, Kenji!”
Ha ha ha h ah aaaahahaha … good stuff. And far better acting skill than little Greta
I smell tribe.
Totally spot on. Social gatherings in my condo, Meetup group hikes, even dates in the 45-to-50-ish cohort are all like this. I am guessing that it is the dopamine hit of instant (assumed) acceptance through shared outrage that these people are seeking. There is definitely something going on here, a viral moral panic and mass delusion.
Or shared self-interest.
How many people in that circle of yours could easily support themselves working outdoors building, making or growing something useful?
Trump is leading the workers’ and peasants’ revolution the left always claimed to want but of which they always lived in mortal fear. Real workers and peasants never had any use for communists except as target practice.
What are you talking about AC ? It’s real WORK … and “struggle” to nick the labors off the real workers. Constant protests, and puppet-building exercises.
A Canadian wrote —
How many people in that circle of yours could easily support themselves working outdoors building, making or growing something useful?
It’s funny that you mention that as the first draft of my comment included a paragraph noting that the derangement syndrome appears to be more prevalent among the people I know with soft jobs. Those who have skilled dirty jobs tend to be less nuts. Those who are primarily knowledge workers are pretty nuts. Government workers are totally batpoop crazy insane with the Social Justice and the Orange Man Bad. I think you are totally correct: I think those whose jobs results in a physical, working, deliverable outcome are more stable.
Now, full disclosure: I too have a soft job. Could I work a trade? Although a little old for it now, I believe I could. I certainly do trade-like work in my spare time for fun or as a volunteer. As for that “circle of [mine]”, I would not describe these people as being in my circle. Sure, they are in my circle of hell, but only because they live in my building or because I have to work with them.
…soft jobs elicit the words, “my colleagues and I”…(or maybe that’s my bias against stuffed shirts.)