Born to be a wandering sage who plays haunting flute melodies in the distance and tells riddles to random people with hidden wisdom
Forced to be a wageworker
@atlanticesque Hate to admit it, but this is an indirect group IQ test.
One of these is the stock-standard answer the school system coaches into the public through a process akin to Huxleyan hypnopaedia, while the other requires some thought and an understanding of culture more than skin-deep.
@wuooods This image used to have a caption that went smth like "inside you there are 2 movie reviewers" and the original joke has always been that you need a bit of both in you.
@atlanticesque "veneration of a quasi-knightly caste with modern weaponry" happens to also describe the nominal ideals of, like, half of all organized crime syndicates irl