I don’t think these results are explained by policies, that the democrats should move left or right or not run as republican-lite or that the campaign made a strategic error or etc etc.
This essay is a better starting point for me: https://www.weareplanc.org/2014/04/we-are-all-very-anxious/
Having a child now means having to set up a 529 college savings account from day 0 and immediately thinking about getting your kid into a top college. Immediately thinking of the costs of playing sports, the cost of summer camp etc. This might be the elite version of this psychosis, but it is impossible to miss.
Being a teen now means facing intense, unbearable competition, the overwhelming sense that you need to sprint to stand still, that you need AP classes, extra curricula’s, 4.0 GPA - I’ve even seen teens trying to become coauthors on academic publications…
Having a job now means facing the constant sense that you are near obsolete, that you need to change company every few years, that you need to expand your outdated skill set - the old fantasy of a job for life is just that.
Being a non-college educated male right now (I have witnessed first hand in my family) means constant FOMO that you’re not getting in on some stock market scam, crypto scam, supplements scam, properties scam etc etc.
We have a culture of unbearable, overwhelming anxiety about every aspect of your life, whether you will have a place to live, a stable job, a worthwhile degree, be able to afford groceries, whether you will get to have friends, endless rat races, and it is causing all different kinds of people to have all sorts of fight or flight responses. Algorithmic, video-based social media is parasitic on all this anxiety and is eating us alive.
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