what i want to know is what happened that made him like this in the face of his father being the preeminent gramsci scholar. like i don't understand what this kid was hearing from whom to make him turn out like this :pete:
Probably just a combination of the "what do you want to be when you grow up? Ok here's a life plan because job is identity" attitude of 80s/90s middle class parenting, living in an upper middle-class circle with political connections, and possibly some mild autistic tendencies to hyperfocus.
Normal families get "Guy who becomes senior signalling engineer at a major railroad". Academic families get Buttigieg, a guy who has attempted to Moneyball the presidency.
It probably didn't help that because his dad was a Gramsci scholar he was certainly unintentionally entwined with the Intelligence community, which made it very easy for PB to get the tap on the shoulder when they realised he hadn't the ideological commitment of his family.
what i want to know is what happened that made him like this in the face of his father being the preeminent gramsci scholar. like i don't understand what this kid was hearing from whom to make him turn out like this :pete:
Probably just a combination of the "what do you want to be when you grow up? Ok here's a life plan because job is identity" attitude of 80s/90s middle class parenting, living in an upper middle-class circle with political connections, and possibly some mild autistic tendencies to hyperfocus.
Normal families get "Guy who becomes senior signalling engineer at a major railroad". Academic families get Buttigieg, a guy who has attempted to Moneyball the presidency.
It probably didn't help that because his dad was a Gramsci scholar he was certainly unintentionally entwined with the Intelligence community, which made it very easy for PB to get the tap on the shoulder when they realised he hadn't the ideological commitment of his family.