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Had to double check to make sure it wasn't an Onion article. He certainly has been having a crisis, and as someone else mentioned here, recently read Meditatio

Had to double check to make sure it wasn't an Onion article. He certainly has been having a crisis, and as someone else mentioned here, recently read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and tried to mimic the writing. But instead, came across as another stressed, lost mind with their head too buried in social media, thinking they have to be at their absolute highlight of their life at any given moment. I feel sorry for this wife he "courted", she probably asks him to at least help with the dishes sometimes but is responded with another tyrade of "You don't understand, woman, I need to focus on my God-given task of building my little blog with my intellectual friends"

taurath 5y ago
Perfect encapsulation of the critique to the point that this feels like a parody itself.
tootie 5y ago
- coldtea 5y ago
  >is the lifestyle of someone with 100% confidence in their social safety net Sorry, but millions of working and middle class people without any "net" have done it in history, I'm sure millions have done it in the US, and millions will continue to do the same thing in the future. As for "whitest"? Tons of blacks have quit their jobs and safety nets and tried their luck in what was termed "the great migration", while having shit for a safety net. And tons of white, latin, jewish, etc. people have done it post WWII, all the way to today. I know at least a few people in their 30s and 40s with harldy anything in their name, that quit a shitty (but steady) job and travelled the world on a whim, with almost nothing in their pocket (and no safety nets). You only need to not have people depending on you (like small children). You don't need a degree, parents, generational wealth, or even money in your bank to do anything. And it doesn't need to come to some happy rich ending where they made money in their quiting job/travelling/etc. Some just come back and eventually get another job. Some just find a partner or a new country to stay, and that's it.
  - Kranar 5y ago
    Comparing a dude who quit their job to court a woman and lift weights while living off of their friends income to the plight of blacks in America or European Jews is quite something.
    - coldtea 5y ago
      Ah, hollier-than-thou faux-rage in behalf of others combined with reading comprehension issues, the plight of modern internet. As one who lost a number of jewish relatives in WWII (here in old Europe), I find this in bad taste. First, I didn't compare anybody specific to anybody (even less so, "a dude who quit their job to court a woman and lift weights"). I answered the general question whether a jump of this kind (quiting your job, on a whim) is doable without being born into riches or having some big safety net. I answered in the abstract, that is, not about this particular person, and whether they lift weights or pluck their eyebrows or whatever. In fact, I didn't refer to the person in TFA at all in my answer. I gave some examples from the Baby Boom era, but also from people I know. Second, note that I didn't write "in WWII", but "post WWII", that is, in the Baby Boom era. This isn't about Jews escaping from the war in Europe, but about (established, and much older) US Jews (and as mentioned, other ethnicities), changing states, looking for "self-realization", changing dreams, and so on. Third, note that if I indeed had referred to the historical plight of blacks, as you understood it, it would be even better as an argument: if those people could do it while having few things in their name, with no tangible prospects awaiting them, in bad conditions, with no education, and so on, then a 2022 educated person, with a good work prior skills, with a little saved money, who can always try and get another job, can do it far more easily.
  - bunnythefifth 5y ago
    > I know at least a few people in their 30s and 40s with harldy anything in their name, that quit a shitty (but steady) job and travelled the world on a whim, with almost nothing in their pocket (and no safety nets). Did they preach about it on the internet in the form of an ostentatious, almost comical prose too?
    - 5y ago
thelettere 5y ago
This is exactly the kind of snarky, deflationary attitude that the article is essentially writing in reaction to. The lack of faith that a "little blog" about good governance in an age entirely absent it could actually lead to something meaningful. Or indeed that a blog itself could be meaningful - that words and ideas might after all have some worth.
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coldtea 5y ago
I feel like we haven't learned a lot about the author of TFA from this comment, but we've learned more about you
dang 5y ago
Please don't break the site guidelines by being snarky or fulminating, and especially please don't cross into personal attack. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

taurath 5y ago

Perfect encapsulation of the critique to the point that this feels like a parody itself.

tootie 5y ago

coldtea 5y ago
>is the lifestyle of someone with 100% confidence in their social safety net Sorry, but millions of working and middle class people without any "net" have done it in history, I'm sure millions have done it in the US, and millions will continue to do the same thing in the future. As for "whitest"? Tons of blacks have quit their jobs and safety nets and tried their luck in what was termed "the great migration", while having shit for a safety net. And tons of white, latin, jewish, etc. people have done it post WWII, all the way to today. I know at least a few people in their 30s and 40s with harldy anything in their name, that quit a shitty (but steady) job and travelled the world on a whim, with almost nothing in their pocket (and no safety nets). You only need to not have people depending on you (like small children). You don't need a degree, parents, generational wealth, or even money in your bank to do anything. And it doesn't need to come to some happy rich ending where they made money in their quiting job/travelling/etc. Some just come back and eventually get another job. Some just find a partner or a new country to stay, and that's it.
- Kranar 5y ago
  Comparing a dude who quit their job to court a woman and lift weights while living off of their friends income to the plight of blacks in America or European Jews is quite something.
  - coldtea 5y ago
    Ah, hollier-than-thou faux-rage in behalf of others combined with reading comprehension issues, the plight of modern internet. As one who lost a number of jewish relatives in WWII (here in old Europe), I find this in bad taste. First, I didn't compare anybody specific to anybody (even less so, "a dude who quit their job to court a woman and lift weights"). I answered the general question whether a jump of this kind (quiting your job, on a whim) is doable without being born into riches or having some big safety net. I answered in the abstract, that is, not about this particular person, and whether they lift weights or pluck their eyebrows or whatever. In fact, I didn't refer to the person in TFA at all in my answer. I gave some examples from the Baby Boom era, but also from people I know. Second, note that I didn't write "in WWII", but "post WWII", that is, in the Baby Boom era. This isn't about Jews escaping from the war in Europe, but about (established, and much older) US Jews (and as mentioned, other ethnicities), changing states, looking for "self-realization", changing dreams, and so on. Third, note that if I indeed had referred to the historical plight of blacks, as you understood it, it would be even better as an argument: if those people could do it while having few things in their name, with no tangible prospects awaiting them, in bad conditions, with no education, and so on, then a 2022 educated person, with a good work prior skills, with a little saved money, who can always try and get another job, can do it far more easily.
- bunnythefifth 5y ago
  > I know at least a few people in their 30s and 40s with harldy anything in their name, that quit a shitty (but steady) job and travelled the world on a whim, with almost nothing in their pocket (and no safety nets). Did they preach about it on the internet in the form of an ostentatious, almost comical prose too?
  - 5y ago

thelettere 5y ago

This is exactly the kind of snarky, deflationary attitude that the article is essentially writing in reaction to. The lack of faith that a "little blog" about good governance in an age entirely absent it could actually lead to something meaningful. Or indeed that a blog itself could be meaningful - that words and ideas might after all have some worth.

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coldtea 5y ago

I feel like we haven't learned a lot about the author of TFA from this comment, but we've learned more about you

dang 5y ago

Please don't break the site guidelines by being snarky or fulminating, and especially please don't cross into personal attack. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html