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Interesting. Has any serious research been done into the midlife crisis phenomenon and linked it to the postwar boom? I’ve always heard/thought of it as an inevitable thing related to aging in general, but Really Makes You Think™ if it’s actually another capitalist condition
Ive always thought of the midlife crisis as being about you finally hitting the point where you've got the money and the time to do the thing(s) you've wanted to do since you were 12.
I know the only reason I don't have a cool motorbike is money and time
i always thought it was a breaking point of being trapped in a life that "you're supposed to have", but don't really want. so people do a bunch of silly junk to fill the void that a nuclear cishet lifestyle can't fill. realizing their wildest dreams cannot fill it either, they go back to the monotony they're familiar with.
It's only something that happens in the kind of society we live in. I'm not going to say just capitalism, but societies of control generally. You're out of assigned goals, and you've only got things to lose from there on out. You have kids, job with some accomplishment, spouse, house, and are well past education. Now you'll just get physically weaker and eventually die, with your friends fading away and kids moving out to do the same shit you did. It only works if you have a society where there are very clearly set expectations, which are only designed to fulfill two things: produce money and future workers. This is mainly a problem of capitalism, but it could emerge from other systems of production.