"Right, because you're a Districter. You've got to rationalize why it's better to not have things somehow." Peggy's the only person around which Jason can say that epithet - Districter - without making it sound like he's spitting it.
But he has a point, that it has to do with where they were respectively raised; Capitolite children are told from the start to have things, to accumulate and measure their value by price tags and bank accounts and real estate, not to appreciate what they have but to use it as a definition of their worth anyway. His Uncle Maury has the latin form of "he with the most toys, wins" above his mantle. When Jason was in kindergarten he learned the proverb "a bird in the hand is worth more than its memory".
"That's only if you take the leap to think anything has meaning anyway." It's not just a lack of insight but a staggering amount of depressive nihilism, not just a lack of self-awareness but a purposeful aversion to it at all. Life doesn't have a meaning to Jason, only existing as a spiteful alternative to the decision his older brother made.
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But he has a point, that it has to do with where they were respectively raised; Capitolite children are told from the start to have things, to accumulate and measure their value by price tags and bank accounts and real estate, not to appreciate what they have but to use it as a definition of their worth anyway. His Uncle Maury has the latin form of "he with the most toys, wins" above his mantle. When Jason was in kindergarten he learned the proverb "a bird in the hand is worth more than its memory".
"That's only if you take the leap to think anything has meaning anyway." It's not just a lack of insight but a staggering amount of depressive nihilism, not just a lack of self-awareness but a purposeful aversion to it at all. Life doesn't have a meaning to Jason, only existing as a spiteful alternative to the decision his older brother made.