I'll be honest, I interpreted it the same way. >a post that ponders whether striving to perform your very best every inch of your life really is the utopia. I

I'll be honest, I interpreted it the same way. >a post that ponders whether striving to perform your very best every inch of your life really is the utopia. I can't read it that way because it's not how I operate. I don't identify as a member of the "front row"[0] even though I am middle to upper middle class. All of the things identified as "mediocre" and implicitly compared against are normal to me. There's an entire caste of Americans that went to HYPSM+ and got 2300's on their SATs and feel stifled by Bay culture. I think they are supremely out of touch. [0] https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/06/back-row-america https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/06/back-row-america