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A Boring Dystopia
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"pulling yourself up by the bootstraps" has always been this: an instruction by the ruling class "for the weed to weed out itself by the roots".
You know what happens when a tree pulls itself up by the roots? ~~It starts walking, dancing even.~~ It dies.
The phrase is also meant to show that it's impossible. You can't lift yourself into the air by pulling on your boot straps.
Boomers were too stupid to understand the joke and have been using it earnest.
Leqd exposure be like that