> it does seem easy to be surrounded by "everybody seems to have everything" imagery > But if you can't afford something, you can't afford it. Man this just s

> it does seem easy to be surrounded by "everybody seems to have everything" imagery > But if you can't afford something, you can't afford it. Man this just strikes so hard at the heart of why America is broken. I think it gets seeded in elementary school and is enflamed by high school. Parents leave their kids in front of TVs so that the parents can get some prolonged free time, the TV which corrupts the kid into a tiny consumer, and by high school haven’t-ism is associated with failure. Everybody wants the advertised trappings and distractions of success with none of the education, experience, and journey. The irony is that the real value that the “successful” have is stoicism, optimism, and work ethic. The only time I ever found any of those lessons on TV as a kid was fucking Veggie Tales.