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Actually people desire to belong to a mission, join a quest, and to engage with comrades to reclaim glory that seems lost. This factors into their political vie

• 082349872349872 4y ago
  As just one counterexample: space exploration is a mission, a quest, and an engagement with comrades (and in a certain country even a reclamation of glory that seems lost), but although it offers plenty of mental struggle, it deliberately seeks to minimise danger and death. (in fact, "fast cheap and out of control" pretty much drive the latter two to zero)
• 082349872349872 4y ago
  counterexample 2: Now the trumpet summons us again--not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need--not as a call to battle, though embattled we are-- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"--a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/inaugural-address-19610120 https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-k...