We successful and striving South Asian immigrants are winning because we didn’t watch your trash 90s middle school TV. We don’t want to be your AC Slaters, your Zach Morrises, we could care less about taking Topanga to the dance. We certainly didn’t watch that one episode of Family Matters where Steve Urkel became a suave and attractive “Stefan” and we didn’t try that out and then cry ourselves to sleep when our school’s version of Kelly Kapowski shot us down. We were too busy at Kumon Math, not jerking it to Lisa Turtle.
Whiplash is an insane movie to pick here because the whole movie is about how a kid destroys himself with pointless striving for a pitiless gargoyle who only cared about what he could extract from the kid. You’re suppose to hope Miles wises up and enjoys banging his cute girlfriend and gives himself a break. Of course Vivek sees a motivational story.
Anyway, Vivek’s whole worldview is revolting and people are right to reject the idea that the good life is to toil away without a shred of enjoyment or socialization so you can return shareholders value. But core MAGA can’t formulate anything except “brown people are the enemy.” They voted for White Power and are getting a government of LinkedInfluencers, LOL. They deserve each other.