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failing up - by Crystal Duan - Shiz with Crys

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I’ve noticed that online there are two types of attitudes toward yuppie life (if you have most of your basic financial needs met) — people who resent their lives for lacking meaning and being too comfortable and wanting to trade up, or people being happy with their lives but being a little apologetic about it and trying to “be real” about the problems they face. In both cases, there’s always an attempt to comment on such existential predicaments in some post-ironic way, which is the most low-hanging fruit way to process your journey. If you’re under age 40, you basically grew up with a life that’s under surveillance — but mostly from your “peers”. Many of these people you also have probably never met, as they exist on the Internet in Tik Tok/IG/Twitter form, yet your attitudes toward your life even in private are informed by everyone else and vice versa. Your viewpoint will become thusly performative, because you start to think about what you *should* want just as much as what you *do*

I’ve noticed that online there are two types of attitudes toward yuppie life (if you have most of your basic financial needs met) — people who resent their lives for lacking meaning and being too comfortable and wanting to trade up, or people being happy with their lives, but being a little apologetic about it and trying to “be real” about the problems they face. In both cases, there’s always an attempt to comment on such existential predicaments in some post-ironic way, which is the most low-hanging fruit way to process your journey. If you’re under age 40, you basically grew up with a…

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