‘Americans still have time to prevent the next great boom and bust, but they are culturally bound to the status quo…’
Reading about the 2026 prediction of a fiscal depression in Progress.org, I chanced to stop on this line. This line about how Americans are ‘culturally bound to the status quo.’ Now here I was thinking all this time it was just immigrant parents that were like that, but no, it was all of it, the outside of the family home, too. I grew up in the US and this was what it was. Culturally bound to the status quo.
As a person who wants to always try new things, explore far and wide, and adventure, it was not going to work. Worse, you were going to be shamed for ‘being too happy’ or ‘doing whatever you want.’ Imagine that you choose what you want to do and you do it. That’s not okay in the United States where you have to have a fancy cool thing to say at a party about where you work and what you do if you are privileged and you have to be at work, working, if you’re not.
All kinds of cultural programs have been diluted more and more over these 12 years far away in Southeast Asia, mostly Cambodia.
This post will continue in DESK, because I want to work it out properly and share more personally with just a few.