Never have the conventions of class and race been less helpful as a shorthand to understanding the individual. Big media and big business is uncertain about how they fit in. Our world has become scarier for its being lonelier, for turning us all into freelancers and part-timers who must fend for ourselves, who must compete against each other ruthlessly. Our world is scary because it no longers offers a story, the certainty of a path. It comes with no guarantees.
People are unpredictable.
There are fewer people to hate outright, yet at the same time we are starved for role models. We are not in a period of temporary chaos that will coalesce into some new order. There is no new order, no new status, no new cheat sheet. The only principles worth living by are ones you can hold yourself to.