I would still like to try and understand, if that’s okay. :)
Would you say the following captures some of it?
When you’re a kid, altruism/volunteering is what adults / teachers / the government keep telling you “nice kids” do, so it’s perceived as something uncool that you need to grow out of, and is only done by people who don’t think for themselves and don’t realize how the world really works.
That’s pretty close to it. And your parents and teachers regularly take you aside and remind you that it’s all LARP. I also suspect that the desire to engage in charitable behavior and political organization is motivated by cultural neuroses. Why should you go vote or politically organize or give your time away for free when you can so obviously improve your life by putting effort into your career? Christian/liberal guilt, I assume.
I would still like to try and understand, if that’s okay. :)
Would you say the following captures some of it?
That’s pretty close to it. And your parents and teachers regularly take you aside and remind you that it’s all LARP. I also suspect that the desire to engage in charitable behavior and political organization is motivated by cultural neuroses. Why should you go vote or politically organize or give your time away for free when you can so obviously improve your life by putting effort into your career? Christian/liberal guilt, I assume.