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It seems to me that so-called "herbivorism" is spreading from Japan into all of Western civilization, a result of commodities like video games, pornography and
by ipnon 10y ago
It seems to me that so-called "herbivorism" is spreading from Japan into all of Western civilization, a result of commodities like video games, pornography and social networks sufficiently simulating the context in which rewards are pursued by the sort of employment that is strangely absent in the current male labor force.
- solipsism 10y agoIs it just me, or does your comment not parse? commodities... sufficiently simulating the context in which rewards are pursued by the sort of employment that is strangely absent in the current male labor force What? What does it mean for commodities to stimulate a context?
- internaut 10y agoHe's saying that working men are so looked down upon that the unemployed consider themselves a step above them. A bit like a perverse parody of aristocrats refusing to work. This is not theoretical, I've seen it, I believe it. It is typical for the middle classes, especially the younger ones and what I can only really call kept women to look down on working class men as being one step removed from the prison population. Possibly feral. Never enlightened. I think the primary cause is an education system that strongly gave the impression to young people that it was 'Yale or Jail'. Basically the universities have created a class system by creating a new social class. Unemployment is less egregious than picking up a hammer or spade. Otherwise you might be one of those ditchdiggers, you know, in "the world needs ditchdiggers too" quote.
- golemotron 10y agoI think it's going to get sorted eventually as most other work automates away. Watch for men taking ditch digging jobs ironically. I give it 5, maybe 10 years.
- ipnon 10y agoWas it Keynes who suggested that governments bury money underground for workers to excavate in the case of chronic mass unemployment?