James Sexton
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Whereas there was a time where a man was like, yeah, I'm at work.
Like that's where I'm supposed to be.
Like that's my role.
Like it's simple, it's clear, it's clean.
Like I know what's expected of me.
Doesn't everything want to know what's expected of it?
Doesn't everyone thrive better under conditions where you know what you're supposed to do that day?
And that way you can say like, oh, I did it right, or I did it wrong, or I'm successful or failing.
There's no way anymore.
There's no gauge anymore of success.
It's really become like, even if you're incredibly successful economically, yeah, but you're like spiritually bankrupt.
Well, I'm spiritually rich.
Yeah, but you're not economically rich.
Like whatever metric, you're failing at some other metric because that's how it works.
So I think that is the broader problem and it's wildly antagonistic to marriage.
I think that's...
Take that I have that is potentially controversial because it's tied to gender stuff My other big thing is I don't think that people's children should be their highest accomplishment.
I think we've created a culture where Everybody's like my proudest accomplishment is my kids.
That seems very strange to me and actually quite sick because Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a virus or a cancer cell like it let's play this theory out if
the most important thing I'll ever do is have children.