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Originally Posted by Doug McClasky
(Post 2067921)
Yeah see this is why I don't get why you float the "make good choices meritocracy try hard and succeed" ****. You fail at this incredibly hard, end up working garbage jobs, addicted to drugs, doing stupid ****, so what level of experience is telling you that big "L" liberalism meritocracy is valid? It sounds like desperation because you're so much of a **** up that giving up on it means admitting that you're stuck and don't know what to do or how to save yourself and please god help me. It's like you're arguing someone else's propaganda in the hopes that if you say it enough times like a rosary that it will become your truth and all this constant failure will just evaporate.
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It's very simple, really. I don't argue we live in a real meritocracy, but merit does matter. I'm not saying choices determine everything, but choices do matter. I'm not saying the system is that great. But I have no control over the system.
All my failures I can trace directly back to choices I made. Any progress I've made in the last 2 or so years, I can trace directly back to choices I made. So basically the system is what it is but the choices you make will affect your place in it.
Everything I've experienced tells me this is true. Both my bad decisions and my good ones. If I take the attitude you and OH are preaching I really have no reason not to go back to my old lifestyle. And I just know intuitively that's a bad idea.
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