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This article bums me out badly because it's so astute and truthful. I wonder how all the organization kids will feel when they're 40 and have lost illusions about the basic meaningfulness of personal advancement. It's this idol of personal utopia that drives both wanton consumerism and the paradox of Mon-Thurs slaving and Fri-Sun unbridled hedonism. There's no meta-perspective on the gameness of it, because a wider perspective makes rule-following seem too absurd.
It's interesting to note that the author's view still seems relevant even after 9/11, which the article just predates, Iraq and Afghanistan. It seems the "elite" class still isn't motivated on a personal level to upheave anything, or feel morally justified in any action. But then again, how many recently-graduated Ivy Leaguers died in the World Trade Center, are serving in Afghanistan and Iraq? (compare this to WWI and Vietnam, with scales of death that were much grander, the latter with a draft that initially excluded college students, only to include them later?)
Extraordinary people, ordinary circumstances (at least in the eyes of the generation?)
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