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“Tick Tock is just as demanding as You Tube” “It almost feels like I’m getting a taste of celebrity but it’s never consistent and as soon as you have it it’s gone and you’re constantly trying to get it back” These quotes are the mark of a weak and decadent society and that they

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are made by 22 and 23 year olds is well...truly, I’m at a loss. First, the concept of working to find fulfillment and purpose has existed for a measurable % of the US population for at most the last 75 years. For all of human history, until that moment, people worked to survive

This remains true for a huge percentage of the worlds population. @jimsciutto @CNN’ s world class National Security journalist recently asked whether the United States could mount DDAY today. I said NO. Is there any grit in America, at least apparently

among young members of the creative class? We live in an age of profound change and disruption. It is being driven by technology, immigration and a thousand other factors. Mostly, what is described in this story is American capitalism which is the singularly most powerful force

in world history for lifting human beings out of extreme poverty and subsistence living. We have a massive wealth inequality problem in America. 40% of the population doesn’t have $400 cash savings which is an enormous factor contributing to the political crisis we face. That

reality has, in large part, given rise to a movement that is parts nationalistic, populist, fascistic, anti democratic, aggrieved, angry, embittered and ready to embrace the lies, scapegoats, enemies and easy answers from a metastasizing authoritarian American movement

I hope more than anything what young creators who are burned out by 22 understand is this; There is no such thing as creators in repressive societies run by autocrats. Democracies are the only system of government that place the human being above the power of

the state. All other systems of government place the power of the State over the dignity of the human being. The result is always tragic. In the end, autocratic societies snuffs out the dreamers, creators, artists, musicians, poets, different thinkers and idealists. Freedom is

required to create and freedom must be guarded with a ferocious determination. It is under assault in this country and we are in danger of losing it to a movement that has come unmoored from this great American conviction 👇

Government of the People-By the People- For the People-shall not perish from this Earth. For most every American who has ever been, they would look at this story and see the Pursuit of Happiness not some undue burden.

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