The point is humans are humans. The rest of philosophical gibberish.
If you want to enjoy life in the US, better be good at tech. Cost of living and minimum wage create a de facto communist quota system, and until Papa Musk is happy with units shipped, we’re going to hear about it!
Society could apply industrialism to biological health and resiliency and a lot of free time to explore existence, but that won’t help vain angry men earn military prestige, or vain socialites earn social status if equality of condition was our social goal.
No it’s the most traditional of social goals for us; serve power, be told it’s for your own good. Propaganda 101; stoke desired emotional tone, repeat words of power.
Developers! Developers! Developers!
The message does not stick in the cortex if the limbic system isn’t primed.
I am trying to get an old house updated and keep hearing no one goes into those jobs anymore. The crews are aging and backed up on work.
This rag makes a huge philosophical social statement without looking at the reality; there are more office workers than builders.
You can’t build anything when everyone is preferring computer jobs and high salaries to go along.
America does not need to build more industrial nonsense. Or even homes. It needs to use empty space that it built better.
This whining about how grand greenfield projects cannot get off the ground is propaganda. Pay trades people what a programmer makes and America will build again.
But that won’t happen as Thiel, Musk and company would not have their way with human agency if it could afford it’s own.
You mean like now when inequality has been trending up in leaps and bounds for years, authoritarian story mode leadership forces it’s preferences on the public, and their whims change every 4-8 years, and the public does nothing but kowtow and pander to elderly people who can’t remember anything?
Musk and co are not suffering.
This culture is a joke. None of us are going to Mars and the beyond but we’re setting us and ours aside for another high minded story about forever human prosperity and growth. Nevermind no science allows for humans to live among the stars. Every frame of reference so far as only seen them tightly coupled to Earth.
It’s clear human biology is capable of a philosophy that diverges wildly from reality. No reason at all to see this period in human society, and the people that make it up, as any less susceptible to propaganda and any more capable of their forever stories than the ancient Greeks.
They may not be spewing the syntax of religion, but the semantic meaning demanded by the powers that be are no different; kowtow to the visions and hallucinations of the almighty.
Maybe Millennials won’t, but Gen Z polls favor progressive politics by wider margin than ahead of Millennials.
Gen Zs political lean has not softened as they age into their late 20s, as it did with Millennials and older.
Minus their elders, Gen X is not a powerful enough political force in another decade to avoid capitulating on new new deal type government. Gen X is pre Information Age, no where near as savvy and aware of how technological society works, raised by a still very God-headed society (the US recently just crossed a threshold of <50% believing in higher powers; was >80% around 2000).
Urban growth has seen fewer teens get a license. Pee wee leagues participation was down before covid, as parents worried about future health, and cratered due to covid. Some unis have ended early education programs due to low enrollment. Essential workers are not staying in essential jobs as long, as they’ve seen they’re just a target for abuse by people who can’t feed themselves. 80% of nurses are considering leaving the field as they’ve just seen Americans rely on them like a mother rather than care for themselves.
There are a lot of trends that are really interesting to see, and the big gorilla is a bunch of senile leaders like Feinstein who apparently forgets peoples names minutes after introductions, and others who can’t understand ideas that aren’t presented in folksy slang. American agency is a lot like her memory; giving way to something else.