[golemotron]

I don’t think we think very much about how culture-specific self-improvement and striving for success are. They are ok but they are not universals in the human condition. From some vantage points they just look comical or odd.

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.” - Kurt Vonnegut

It doesn’t take seeing the firebombing of Dresden to cultivate some of Vonnegut’s perspective.