Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today...
zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 4 days agoBasically what I mean is the mindset of doing everything possible in your power to be self-sufficient. I think I’ve gone so far off the left side I’ve horseshoed around. Everyone should be striving to be as self-sufficient as possible and not need to rely on external forces. I’m far from it, but I’m trying, at least given the past few years (and especially this month) I’m preparing for bad situations.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That is the mindset that got us here. Maybe it will help to double down, but the reality is we don’t know, we’re in uncharted waters
zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m not saying the government shouldn’t help the people who need it though. Bring back FDR. I think that’s the big reason why I’m not actually conservative. The help should be there, but people should have an internal desire to rely on outside forces as little as possible. I think many already have that desire, but not enough by far.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think the atomization of society shows that its not just a desire but that independence is a social pressure. “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is the air we breathe. Thats why business people like musk deny they got say, emerald mine money; the social pressure to seem self reliant is far greater than the social pressure to tell the truth
zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 3 days ago
For sure, that’s definitely a big American thing. The entire irony is that the term “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” was coined to say how you can’t do that, meant to describe an impossible task. Somehow conservatives took it and then made it mean the exact opposite, which if exactly on brand for them.