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I have sometimes joked that there's a kind of "socialist" whose politics seem mostly to be centered around the notion that in a post-capitalist socialist utopia
by dionidium 5y ago
I have sometimes joked that there's a kind of "socialist" whose politics seem mostly to be centered around the notion that in a post-capitalist socialist utopia they'd somehow just be able to stay home and not participate in anything.
This is a joke, but I do wonder if there isn't a kind of person who, whether we call it introversion or whatever, just isn't at all happy in the kind of modern environment where you have to interact a lot with strangers, where you have to be in a customer service or large office environment everyday, where you constantly have to be moving forward and mingling and so on.
They just want to...coast.
And they get the sense, somehow, that capitalism is to blame for how they feel, but, I don't know, maybe it's modernity itself.
- ikr678 5y agoAmbition and the pressure to always be ambitious has become kind of a performative dance you have to do to be taken seriously in certain circles. Coasting is looked down upon.