What you're describing is a roundabout way of saying that for a society to remain healthy it needs to instill certain cultural and social values in each new generation.
Leftists would call these "institutions". Why do you think they went after everything from K-12 to comic books? Videogames, movies, TV, commercials, comics, books... these aren't just timewasters or hobbies and diversions. SJWs understand that these are the ways society tells itself stories about itself.
Just look at the Federation's internal culture Star Trek TNG and DS9. With matter replicators the concept of money and wealth is pointless, you can have any thing at any time. But at the same time private enterprise is still thriving. We see private freighters and transports, inventors, we even a privately owned family restaurant.
It works because the culture written for Star Trek's Federation is an idealized form of protestant work ethic. The entire Federation is based on a culture of striving to build things and explore. People want to work, they embrace challenge and even hardship.
That's the power of institutions. You don't need to dial back technology and the economy to make things suck again, you need to dial back the self-destructive perversion of social and cultural institutions that have run rampant on both the left and the right thanks to Bezos and his buddies.
What you're describing is a roundabout way of saying that for a society to remain healthy it needs to instill certain cultural and social values in each new generation.
Leftists would call these "institutions". Why do you think they went after everything from K-12 to comic books? Videogames, movies, TV, commercials, comics, books... these aren't just timewasters or hobbies and diversions. SJWs understand that these are the ways society tells itself stories about itself.
Just look at the Federation's internal culture Star Trek TNG and DS9. With matter replicators the concept of money and wealth is pointless, you can have any thing at any time. But at the same time private enterprise is still thriving. We see private freighters and transports, inventors, we even a privately owned family restaurant.
It works because the culture written for Star Trek's Federation is an idealized form of protestant work ethic. The entire Federation is based on a culture of striving to build things and explore. People want to work, they embrace challenge and even hardship.
That's the power of institutions. You don't need to dial back technology and the economy to make things suck again, you need to dial back the self-destructive perversion of social and cultural institutions that have run rampant on both the left and the right thanks to Bezos and his buddies.