All men everywhere think they can do anything at any time. It is absolutely endemic to culture. Period. Every fat ass dude-brah you meet under about 50y.o. honestly believes he can do whatever he sets his mind to. Most guys (white, employed, middle class) simply set their minds to watching pro sports (or in newer generations playing video games, but whatever) and dreaming of what they could do/have done.
I, for one, wish and hope that the "you can do anything/you are special" part of child rearing in this country will within my lifetime die a swift (but painful) death. We are not all special. We cannot all do anything. Thank you to the parents of the baby boomers for feeling so lost in a sea of children whom they didn't need (the first generation of children, almost ever, for whom that was true) that they ingrained this belief that has possibly ruined not only art but commerce as well, forever.
The end result of this parenting style: Lena Dunham. I rest my case.
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All men everywhere think they can do anything at any time. It is absolutely endemic to culture. Period. Every fat ass dude-brah you meet under about 50y.o. honestly believes he can do whatever he sets his mind to. Most guys (white, employed, middle class) simply set their minds to watching pro sports (or in newer generations playing video games, but whatever) and dreaming of what they could do/have done.
I, for one, wish and hope that the "you can do anything/you are special" part of child rearing in this country will within my lifetime die a swift (but painful) death. We are not all special. We cannot all do anything. Thank you to the parents of the baby boomers for feeling so lost in a sea of children whom they didn't need (the first generation of children, almost ever, for whom that was true) that they ingrained this belief that has possibly ruined not only art but commerce as well, forever.
The end result of this parenting style: Lena Dunham. I rest my case.