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The same reason why millenials were angry before them, expect that Millennial are now too busy trying to survie to be angry
Makes me wonder why there isn’t more rioting elsewhere, like in the Americas. It a not as if they don’t have the same issues.
I guess, there are multiple reasons, but for me one big one is the perversion of individualism: The mindset is that’s always your own fault and you just need to work harder to get from a dish washer to a millionaire. Only lazy people complain.
I think you’re right about that. The whole american concept of rugged individualism was really great for the pioneers because if you’re out there on your own in the middle of frickin’ nowhere, you have to take accountability for absolutely everything that is going on in your situation or you just freaking die. But that was so driven into us over the years because of the expansionism that I think it’s not going to fade for quite a while.
I think there’s another factor to this too, and that’s the constant foisting of this and other concepts onto the American populace. Let’s give an example to be clear. One thing that I’ve seen the rugged individualism evolve into is this belief that if you are poor, it’s 100% your fault, and there was nothing anybody else could or should have done to prevent it, and it’s all on you. But in reality, obviously, there are many factors that are out of one’s control.
Another example is the idea that anyone can become a millionaire, and so we have a whole lot of people out there that believe they’re just temporarily inconvenienced millionaires that have just yet to hit their stride, and once they do… yada yada yada. I think this idea, among others, leads to a lot of cheerleaders for the upper class that really don’t understand that they’re betraying their own interests and values as they cheer on the billionaires.
Thanks for kicking off this train of thought. That was very helpful.
