02-10-2019, 07:57 PM
It is difficult to self-actualize when the premises of the heirs, executives, and shysters (Donald Trump is all three) are that for people other than themselves, that even survival is a privilege. Our economic system has as its predicate that all must compete for everything that the elites choose not to arrogate for themselves.
Many people seem to have no affiliation to anything. People are often mobile as a term of survival, so that they can develop no sense of community. Communities with stable populations, like wrecked small towns have no leadership. Scout troops, fraternal lodges, PTAs, and even bowling leagues seem to be on the fade. Unions? Don't even think about one if you want to work!
We get to compete to drive down wages and bid up rent.
There have been times when America had ethnic and religious pariahs that Americans ganged up on as if an act of civic duty. Maybe that is gone. But do we have anything left?
Sometimes, people must rebuild or replace institutions from nothing. Every man for himself, the ethos of the 3T that we have, brings no delight. We all compete, and even the winners of the mandatory competition may not like the prize.
Many people seem to have no affiliation to anything. People are often mobile as a term of survival, so that they can develop no sense of community. Communities with stable populations, like wrecked small towns have no leadership. Scout troops, fraternal lodges, PTAs, and even bowling leagues seem to be on the fade. Unions? Don't even think about one if you want to work!
We get to compete to drive down wages and bid up rent.
There have been times when America had ethnic and religious pariahs that Americans ganged up on as if an act of civic duty. Maybe that is gone. But do we have anything left?
Sometimes, people must rebuild or replace institutions from nothing. Every man for himself, the ethos of the 3T that we have, brings no delight. We all compete, and even the winners of the mandatory competition may not like the prize.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.