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It's interesting how people can share similar views about society and the economy without having discussed them beforehand. Everything mentioned in this article

It's interesting how people can share similar views about society and the economy without having discussed them beforehand. Everything mentioned in this article fits perfectly into my worldview. It was still very interesting to read because it reaches the same conclusions from a different starting point. I guess this is what makes these narratives so powerful. They don't communicate new ideas, they merely confirm and label existing ideas which, until that point, had been building up in people's minds independently over many years. You can meet someone completely different from you, from a completely different social group and industry with different life experiences; yet they have the exact same sense about what's happening, regardless of how complex and obscure the underlying machinations are.

maroonblazer 3y ago
> They don't communicate new ideas, they merely confirm and label existing ideas which, until that point, had been building up in people's minds independently over many years. I see it doing something different: organizing a collection of events into a causal narrative that helps to explain our present situation. Additionally, by focusing on the meaningfully important events and their causes, it points to some number of solutions for how we can improve our present situation.
spacemadness 3y ago
I don’t think everyone shares this model, even though I think it’s quite accurate. If people did, you wouldn’t have exasperated land owning boomers online telling Gen Z and millenials what they’re doing wrong. Avocado toast has nothing on high debt to earnings and low wage growth for a majority of people over generations. But older folks still think everyone lives essentially the same because all their friends do, so what’s the problem? I think that was one point of the article—that people have a hard time letting go of the prevalent narratives of their generation as outdated as they may be.
scottLobster 3y ago
Well everyone standing in the rain can agree that it's raining. The article's talking about societal impacts that affect 90+% of the population negatively in roughly the same manner, albeit at different magnitudes.

maroonblazer 3y ago

> They don't communicate new ideas, they merely confirm and label existing ideas which, until that point, had been building up in people's minds independently over many years. I see it doing something different: organizing a collection of events into a causal narrative that helps to explain our present situation. Additionally, by focusing on the meaningfully important events and their causes, it points to some number of solutions for how we can improve our present situation.

spacemadness 3y ago

I don’t think everyone shares this model, even though I think it’s quite accurate. If people did, you wouldn’t have exasperated land owning boomers online telling Gen Z and millenials what they’re doing wrong. Avocado toast has nothing on high debt to earnings and low wage growth for a majority of people over generations. But older folks still think everyone lives essentially the same because all their friends do, so what’s the problem? I think that was one point of the article—that people have a hard time letting go of the prevalent narratives of their generation as outdated as they may be.

scottLobster 3y ago

Well everyone standing in the rain can agree that it's raining. The article's talking about societal impacts that affect 90+% of the population negatively in roughly the same manner, albeit at different magnitudes.