Last night, I was reflecting on the common point between people flocking to SV or to Syria to support Isis.
I know this is pretty far fetched, but at the end, I feel both have the same kind of appeal :
Stay where you are and remain an anonymous cog in the machine, or move to a place, where you will endure hardship, but where in the end you can change the world and you will create a legacy.
And in both case, the reality is less rosy. This is a kind of an archetypal "Call to Adventure", but it might have another name.
I would argue that ts the experience and not the result (I'm talking about SV of course, those that go to Syria are probably going to be dead so their experiences won't count for much).
I know this is pretty far fetched, but at the end, I feel both have the same kind of appeal :
Stay where you are and remain an anonymous cog in the machine, or move to a place, where you will endure hardship, but where in the end you can change the world and you will create a legacy.
And in both case, the reality is less rosy. This is a kind of an archetypal "Call to Adventure", but it might have another name.