Haviv Rettig Gur
I actually have a deep admiration for American life. I teach young Israelis about the miracle that is America, and especially the uniquely good experience Jews have had in America. I play American guitar and love American writers. But the deeper you go into America's radicalized elites, the more awful - yes, genuinely awful - everything becomes. Neverending, anxiety-inducing but ultimately pointless competition for social standing; puritanical policing of thought and word (your "academic diversity," Michael, is represented here by a professor who literally tells us in this video to accept something "no questions asked"); empty consumerism that seeks to fill emotional needs no longer sated by community and extended family; and rage-filled politics trying to replace the breakdown of old narratives of meaning. The treadmill I was referring to isn't *America*, it's the heartbreaking emptiness of America's elite culture.
Michael Drew 🍻🍻
Notice how he reduces American life to an empty grind of consumerism (peace) and academia (diversity), devoid of meaning presumably compared to the struggle of a true ethnos at perpetual war for dominance of deemed tribal lands