"The unprecedented wealth that has accumulated in advanced societies during the past generation means that an increasing share of the population has grown up taking survival for granted. Thus, priorities have shifted from an overwhelming emphasis on economic and physical security toward an increasing emphasis on subjective well-being, self-expression and quality of life."
it took me about 27 years to understand that spectrum existed, let alone where I fit in it.
yeah, I feel that there is some form of bias apparent in the orientation of traditional/secular axis. If the authors really liked conservative social values, I'm sure it would be flipped about the horizontal axis and we'd all be thinking "move to puerto rico"
i like how we've admitted a bias in "traditional vs. secular" but we both seem to have generally assumed that "self-expression" is more valuable than "survival".
I think it'd be hard to argue that the ability to focus on self-expression is preferable to having to worry about where your next meal (or bullet) is coming from. But I do think that there is a limit to that, and at some point comfort and safety have diminishing returns (idle spoiled youth growing into self-centered adults, for example). So, yeah, I'm not 100% convinced about taking the whole human experience and reducing it to two axes, although it is certainly an interesting graphic.
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it took me about 27 years to understand that spectrum existed, let alone where I fit in it.
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