> Ivy league colleges don’t “make” people boot lickers of the system. People who are obsessed with status, social power, and prestige—people who have been licking the systems taint their entire lives, Frumunda maxxing daily for decades in hopes they might tickle out a radioactive shart big enough to mutate them into a status symbol too—are drawn to ivy league colleges.
Brilliant article—neither reason nor rhetoric can sway temperamental constants—but I particularly liked this section.
I've always made this point regarding the relationship between a people and their religion.
A people adopt and adapt a religion to fit their pre-existing culture, their folk temperament.
Calvinism didn't turn the Lowland Scots gloomy and austere—they took to it because it suited the folk temperament.
"And worse: You liked it and want to do it again."
In the words of a certain Mel Brooks rap, "Its Good To Be the King":
Com'on you'd do it. Everybody does it. I just did it, and I'm ready to do it again.
> Ivy league colleges don’t “make” people boot lickers of the system. People who are obsessed with status, social power, and prestige—people who have been licking the systems taint their entire lives, Frumunda maxxing daily for decades in hopes they might tickle out a radioactive shart big enough to mutate them into a status symbol too—are drawn to ivy league colleges.
Brilliant article—neither reason nor rhetoric can sway temperamental constants—but I particularly liked this section.
I've always made this point regarding the relationship between a people and their religion.
A people adopt and adapt a religion to fit their pre-existing culture, their folk temperament.
Calvinism didn't turn the Lowland Scots gloomy and austere—they took to it because it suited the folk temperament.
(The knowledge of what "Frumunda" is, is something I could have done without! Your words reminded me of this thread: https://twitter.com/DisgracedProp/status/1602429725091057664)
holy based. gonna be linking to this one a lot, even if it isn't the most polished of pieces.
side note: unsure who your target audience is, because you've got a lot of RWBB vocab but your approaches are more post-rat/nerd than anything else.