I don't think you're quite right. These people don't actually think this way (or think of themselves this way). They maybe think that they could have ended up t

I don't think you're quite right. These people don't actually think this way (or think of themselves this way). They maybe think that they could have ended up that way, but that's much different. What ties all these communities together is idolizing that archetype, without necessarily yearning to be that archetype.