TK4
Well-known member
From a post on ADVRider -
"I think we're in the process of adapting to how we've changed our social environment. Business and government (both overwhelmingly dominated by men, especially in the USA) have made much of what used to be considered "manly" obsolete. The frontier is gone, and with it much of the need for the "manly" virtues of toughness, strength and risk (I think a big pivot point was rural electrification back in the 1930s). Capitalism and its offspring Taylorism have largely ended skilled craft (it's more profitable to put the skill into the system, be it the organization of the assembly line or a book or a database than to leave it in the heads of people you have to pay). Risk aversion is increasingly good business (Volkswagen replaced its "Drivers Wanted" slogan with "Safe Happens" a decade or so ago). I suspect this transition hit GenX and Millennials hardest, and now GenZ is the first to be brought up in this new reality and to adapt to it.We've also gotten much better at providing simulated risk. Thanks to the unholy alliance of Hollywood and Madison Avenue, there's now a science of bypassing the thought process and directly jerking reflexes and glands. A movie, ride or game can create the bodily thrills of real risk with no actual danger. The excitement that comes from taking chances can now be created in complete safety. Hard to compete with that among a population whose minds have been conditioned to compute safety."
"I think we're in the process of adapting to how we've changed our social environment. Business and government (both overwhelmingly dominated by men, especially in the USA) have made much of what used to be considered "manly" obsolete. The frontier is gone, and with it much of the need for the "manly" virtues of toughness, strength and risk (I think a big pivot point was rural electrification back in the 1930s). Capitalism and its offspring Taylorism have largely ended skilled craft (it's more profitable to put the skill into the system, be it the organization of the assembly line or a book or a database than to leave it in the heads of people you have to pay). Risk aversion is increasingly good business (Volkswagen replaced its "Drivers Wanted" slogan with "Safe Happens" a decade or so ago). I suspect this transition hit GenX and Millennials hardest, and now GenZ is the first to be brought up in this new reality and to adapt to it.We've also gotten much better at providing simulated risk. Thanks to the unholy alliance of Hollywood and Madison Avenue, there's now a science of bypassing the thought process and directly jerking reflexes and glands. A movie, ride or game can create the bodily thrills of real risk with no actual danger. The excitement that comes from taking chances can now be created in complete safety. Hard to compete with that among a population whose minds have been conditioned to compute safety."
