It\u2019s still the ultimate aspiration for tons of normie people, just not the people who were in your freshman dorm. I think you are just trying to square the circle of identifying with people who are not on the cultural cutting edge and insisting on your own uniqueness.
I\u2026 what are you even talking about, dude?
What I’m saying is that I expected that my cohort of more creative credentialed elites would have more adventurous lives, and expected that some of those adventures would lead to nothing in particular and they’d just be good-natured and maybe at least indie-flavored normies, some of the better conversation at Home Depot, the kind who made Old Navy and Target a thing in the 90s
But that I have been disappointed, to the extent I have followed that path I have less company than I expect, and that a surprising share of my once-peers seem to have become apparatchiks in some caricature of a professionalized class, and that this might come from broader trends, a constriction of expansion\ufffc\ufffc-enabled possibility back from the Boomer heyday to before the postwar era (the prepostwar, as it were)
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