Every Paradise is Spoiled. Utopia, Imperfection, and the Human Condition

Thoughts after watching the German Netflix series DARK:  

Jedes Paradies ist verdorben. Jede Utopie ist verkommen, denn das Größte der menschliche Schöpfung u. Kreativität erfordert Imperfektion, Fehler, u. Zufall.

Das was uns meist verbindet ist dieses Nexus von Kreativität und Imperfektion.

Humans cannot exist in an ideal state such as utopia, paradise, or nation of complete peace, beauty, or freedom from injustice or affliction.  Just like a vacuum, perfection is not afforded by the nature of living things, our biology or our thoughts. 

 It’s best that we love and embrace the creative friction of our reality, rather than resisting and shaming our flawed nature.  

We can only truly gain any control over our flaws when we stop loathing them, and when we are informed by them.

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Gratitude Challenge Day 3: Favorite Sounds

5 min gratitude journaling challenge, day 3/30. Today’s prompt is Favorite Sound: 

Most of the sounds that came to mind today are calming and soothing.  Other days they are pulsing and exciting.  At certain times I need to hear and feel certain things.          

I notice that for some reason I feel very grounded by sounds that remind me of my place in the universe: 

My small, fleeting existence seems paradoxically significant because how rare and special it is to observe, comprehend, feel and reflect on the infinite.  These moments feel electric and tingling, ominous, and calming all at once.  The mix of emotion echoes the juxtapositions of vastness and smallness, infinite and finite. The universe and me.

Today I thought of the sound of waves against my canoe or boat hull.  The voice of my first love.  The beating whoosh of large wings both felt and heard - an eagle, a goose, an owl, a vulture.  The echo of a loon and the call of a mourning dove, spring peeper frogs, katydids, gentle rain on my tent or window, wind quaking the leaves, thunder, the crash of waves and the howling wind at night.  The hush after a deep snow.

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Toward Resilience, Self Esteem, and Emotional Education in America

Some parents, caregivers, and teachers enable a child’s ego to develop in a mostly stable way, which bolsters their emotional resilience in the face of failure, situational stress, and contradiction.  They “fill the child’s bucket,” to cite an SEL-based children’s book by Carol McCloud [Have You Filled a Bucket Today?]   Yet other caregivers don’t even realize that they’re teaching children to doubt themselves, to have limited self esteem, to feel that something is wrong with them, and so shame grows.  In so doing they teach a child to value the input of others over their own self-evaluation, including the inability to forgive oneself.  There has been some improvement in the overall emotional resilience in American youth, with the increasing popularity of social emotional education in public school curricula.  But we are behind many other countries and cultures which have had decades of humanistic education and anti-shame parenting [citation needed]. 

Self perception, mindset, and attitude are greater determinants of whether an individual sees themself as having failed or succeeded at something, or identifying as a success or failure in life.  The capacity to remain emotionally secure and stable regardless of success, failure, or social feedback is known in the field of education as resilience.  In psychological terms, the locus of [self] control is external versus internal [Rotter, Judge, Locke, Durham].

    “Locus of control is one of the four dimensions of core self-evaluations – one's fundamental appraisal of oneself – along with neuroticism, self-efficacy, and self-esteem.[3] The concept of core self-evaluations was first examined by Judge, Locke, and Durham (1997), and since has proven to have the ability to predict several work outcomes, specifically, job satisfaction and job performance.[4] In a follow-up study, Judge et al. (2002) argued that locus of control, neuroticism, self-efficacy and self-esteem factors may have a common core.[5]”. [wikipedia]

For the sake of brevity, I’ll call this the “self nexus.”  In the vernacular, we talk about this core or nexus with terms like ego, self-love, confidence, and self-trust, acceptance, resilience; and conversely, insecurity, weakness, anxiety, and shame.  

  I think it’s unfortunate that for years self-help gurus, career trainers and managers, motivational speakers, teachers, and even therapists have often neglected to teach self-love and (self-)forgiveness.

We’re taught that to reach goals and dreams we have to use positive self talk, visualization, we have to put the past in the past, plan and communicate effectively.  Some of these lessons and practices approximate the nexus of Self-Love, Trust, and Esteem.  But unless you already have a healthy ego / positive self nexus, most of this self-development education will be unsustainable.  

Many trainers and authors provide the by-now-cliche examples of Churchill, Edison, Gandhi, among many others, of how it’s possible and powerful to be persistent and resilient in the face of failure.  But essentially they’re really providing parables about the importance of self esteem.  For it’s almost impossible to continue in the face of repeated failure without a positive self nexus.

And while resilience comes easily for us in some challenges, it can be altogether lacking in others.  We may use our strengths and our positive nexus in one area to compensate, hide, or ignore our shame and fear of other competencies we’ve never developed.  Since the presence of self esteem is only occasionally completely pervasive across an individual’s competencies, most of us make it through life without ever having to address or mention our pockets of incompetence or self loathing.  

Regardless of an individual’s measured and ranked abilities, it’s their self perception of their ability which most determines performance and perceived feelings of well-being and satisfaction over time.  In relationships, emotional, physical, and intellectual competencies, our acceptance and even appreciation of our limitations and mistakes brings the maturity and confidence that only results from this positive self awareness.  

That is why wise people have urged self-knowledge for millennia; but not merely to be able to avoid our shortcomings, but to embrace them.  When we can embrace shortcomings, so are we better equipped to lead, work well with and appreciate the contributions of others.  

Take some time to observe yourself and others:  you will start to notice that those who seem most ungrateful or resistent to contribution, or conversely, too dependent upon it,  are those who fear most their own limitations.

These among many others are reasons why we need more and better opportunities for esteem-based learning for people regardless of age.  There will almost always be areas in which one may desire to increase one’s capacity, comfort, and confidence.

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Emotional and Intellectual Slavery is Unconsciously Pervasive in Liberal, Democrat, and Libertarian Behavior & Communication, not Just in Conservative Ideology: How Our Authoritarian American Culture perpetuates political, economic, physical, and mental feudalism.

-by Tim Freeman - Sirtosky

[Reader's note: the CAPS are for readability and highlighting for special attention for people with ADHD, Dyscalculia, and Dyslexia]


  I was raised like thousands or millions of children (culturally Euro-centric (Catholic)) by parents who view/ed themselves as upwardly mobile, educated, and morally virtuous.  We were raised to aspire to  saint-like behavior;  humility, self-sacrifice, and deference to authority.  But this was essentially a LIE because this culture of acceptable personal shame leads to vice, not virtue.  Mild guilt may encourage the development of pro-social morals like cooperation, but shame has been proven to teach silence, non transparency, and secret self-loathing, which are “values” that always undermine the principles of democracy.  And in the United States, and the United Nations at least, our governing documents say that we are dedicated to a starkly DIFFERENT SET OF PRINCIPLES (values).  While much of Americans' most important childhood social learning is grounded in the acceptance of self loathing and authoritarianism, our nation asks us to aspire to self-determination, self-esteem, scientific transparency, critical thinking, AND EVEN THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS! [Insert here dozens of supporting quotes and scientific studies from antiquity to the present*]

How can children who deeply internalize shame, and readily submit to and accept those who shame mature into adults who act democratically?  They can’t and they don’t.  Not unless they arduously re-educate and heal the emotional trauma and generational abuse they were taught.  The founders of our nation, as well as other people who apply basic logic and observation, have written and spoken continuously that having a secretly self-loathing and easily-guilted flock of mental child-slaves* is antithetical to freedom, justice, equality, democracy, and a relatively stable society (*Socrates, Plato being among the first). 
In fact, I believe much of the modern western ideology behind democracy can be summed up by the Socratically-influenced motto of St. John’s College in Annapolis + Santa Fe: “Facio liberos ex liberis libris libraque.” Or “I make free adults from children [or slaves] by means of books and a balance.” Education and good judgment (aka critical and scientific thought) sets us free, makes us mature citizens, and responsible patriots.

But even though Catholic kids are usually taught to be always thoughtfully conscientious to others, this pro-social idea is poisoned by IGNORING, DISTRUSTING, and LOATHING our INNER VOICE, HAPPINESS, and POSITIVE SELF-SOURCE.  So that the source of our feeling of worth, acceptance, and validation could only come from those who our families, churches, and communities deemed as the elders / gate-keepers / judges… 
So the young people are trained to perpetuate the cycle of generational abuse by enabling culturally-approved authority figures, no matter how abusive, sociopathic, narcissistic, mentally disordered, or socio-emotionally crippled and irresponsible they are.  TEACHING CHILDREN TO BE SILENT + SELF LOATHING IS HOW ATROCITIES ARE COMMITTED, no publicity or declaration of war is necessary.  When we teach kids shame we help commit a silent genocide of love and value of the self, and the semi-suicide/deicide of the goodness and God-spark we are all born with.

The most perfect metaphor in recent lore of this now self-evident and scientifically-provable phenomenon is in JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts:  The Obscurus is the warped, broken, and self-hating demon that results from suppressing our inner light and imperfect specialness.  In this case, magical ability.  We become numb to the path that leads us to confidence and complete Self Actualization and satisfaction in life.  When our locus of control is external and not internal we will never find lasting true love and peace, because that can only comes from within.

 How many humans still ignore (even Catholic) writers and scholars have to tell us that no matter what you call God or Goodness -the Universal-Goodness-Value-Love (no matter the religion or belief system) can only be realized when the source is within?  True “Charisma” (alignment with God), that tongue-of-fire, that inspiration (life breathed into) is only a co-creation with the Universal / Infinite Source.  If the ideas, love, values, trust, and judgment only come from outside yourself, then you’re still an unenlightened mental subordinate.  God and nature speak not just to us but through us.  To fail to cultivate that inner voice and trust is a refusal to grow and build a complete relationship with God and nature.

 It’s this EXACT CONCEPT of INNER WISDOM, TRUST, and VALIDATION that Billy Atwell and all emotionally mature / wise people know and try to teach.  From Jesus and the other non-power-hungry sages of the Bible (like Ecclesiastes and Thomas) to Buddha, to the Secret, to Taoist Lao Tzu, to a handful of modern Christian preachers, to the Quakers, and dozens of self-help writers and gurus of all nationalities and faiths- they are trying to empower the DEMOCRATIC self-organizing principles of the ENLIGHTENMENT: SELF-EVIDENT and UNIVERSAL TRUTHS that ALL HUMANS ARE CREATED EQUAL and HAVE UNALIENABLE RIGHTS of LIFE, FREEDOM, and THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.  These concepts are and will always contradict those who perpetuate their authority through blind acceptance - those who govern through paternalistic command.

Most managers, teachers, leaders, and parents who even consider themselves moderate, liberal, Libertarian, or Democrat are typically unaware that their leadership style comes from a master/slave mindset the pre-dates Enlightenment or ancient democratic ideals.  It is a MODERN ironic tragedy that most adults cannot distinguish, much less change, their own medieval leadership and communication style, if they can even recognize and correctly name it in others.

It is this vast ignorance and lack of vernacular (popular vocabulary) on the part of liberals, moderates, and conservatives alike that is cherished and encouraged by most of the economic elite.  It's a great tool for creating social division, apathy, and helplessness among those that could change and completely democratize the United States.  Sadly even well-intentioned liberals often rely on the cooperation of those lower in the hierarchy to accept their authoritarian egotism: lack of transparency, being closed to feedback, assumed intellectual and moral superiority.  In an age of an authoritarian American presidency unchecked by the Senate, in addition to decades of social dominance by the economic 1%, it cannot be repeated enough: that this is NOT AN ISSUE of GOOD vs EVIL, good vs evil is only relative to your political and religious ideology), but IT IS A UNIVERSAL ISSUE OF SLAVE SOCIETY vs DEMOCRACY.

If our institutions, especially education, primarily relied on emotionally and intellectually democratic ideals, I believe most inequalities would cease to exist within a generation or two.  Our systemic racism, xenophobia, able-ism, chauvinism, gender/hetero/sexism, religious fundamentalism, ageism, and classism would start withering at a pace heretofore unseen in this country. 

While I have grasped the cultural AND psychological dynamics of shame intellectually, I, like many others who seek to heal, love, and value themselves have been missing the crucial/ essential key (sonic screwdriver?) to break out of this mental slavery.  I finally got it during my hour-long conversation with Billy Atwell, who encouraged me to realize that I just need to make a daily practice of RELEASING my feelings of resistance, control, regret, tension, and free-floating anxiety while learning and practicing SELF LOVE + ACCEPTANCE (also known as TRUSTING YOURSELF and YOUR INTUITION).  Since that moment of realization, I have been falling in love with myself because I gave myself permission to stop second guessing my judgments, my imperfections and mistakes.  I see that there are still a few places in my life where I actively distrust myself and so I tend to hold back and remain passive instead of communicating and going for what makes my heart sing.  Whether it is being forthcoming about my skills, abilities, or lack thereof, supervisors, interviewers, and lawgivers are fundamentally just as flawed and are just as “right” as me.  And just because there are few others like me doing what I do, especially in my current environment, it does not mean that I need to feel that something is wrong about where I am, what judgments I’ve made, and what direction I’m going.  As long as I’m growing and intending to do and be GOOD in such a way that does not harm others (and most likely benefits everyone in the long run) [* see Kantian ethics/ Categorical Imperative, the Golden Rule, and Mutualism]

How did I not see that the point of all this healing, therapy, self-work, prayer, and meditation is to love and trust myself!?  I think that’s the power of how our culture conditions authoritarianism within me and you.  I consider myself well above average in emotional intelligence and sensitivity, and yet it took me till age 40 to get to this exciting and wonderful relationship with myself!  So I know this can’t be an easy truth to realize, even for the brightest and best of us.  This is why wise teachers and leaders must be bold and outspoken if we are to destroy emotional, intellectual, political, and economic slavery.






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Ode to My Sisters

Ode to my sisters

I’m so sorry for any words that may have hurt you unnecessarily or unfairly. But this is not just an apology.
This letter is a reckoning.  This is not a letter of blame. Blame does nothing but foster resentment and allow wounds to fester forever.

I think a complete reckoning includes thorough discussion of circumstances, apologies, gratitudes, and intentions and commitments for the future.

Given that there are decades of Past and contentions over what is acceptable words & behavior, I want to speak my gratitude and acknowledge my responsibility first.

I own my imperfections of memory, lack of timeliness, at times being sanctimonious about my intelligence, politics. I acknowledge that I broke with tradition by resisting and often challenging Mom’s authority while expecting her financial support.  Although I’ve received much less financial support than many others in our extended family, some of whom you befriend and value.
I acknowledge that instead of just working my ass off and suppressing or transferring the shame that I was taught, I chose to wrestle myself away from patterns of abuse toward acceptance and healthiness, even if it meant living inside my resentment for too long, hesitating at job and academic opportunities, and working on healing myself and my confidence instead of just powering through life by sheer force of will and emotional denial.

I also own that until 20019 I held out hope that I could play and win at the game of being a successful and valued child and sibling.  I didn’t think I was still playing that game, but it’s so firmly programmed and lurks in undiscovered corners of our minds.  If I had realized years ago that I still held a secret hope of our family being supportive and loving in a healthy way, and that this was a remnant of my learned codependence, I would not be in my current state of wavering dependent self esteem.  It’s crazy to me that I’m just now getting the opportunity to learn that a healthy person knows and feels that they are the source of their own goodness.

sidenote on healing from shame:  [I see Coaching as social re-learning, receiving the permission to locate my value solely within myself instead of giving that power to others.  As well as reinforcing daily practice of healthy and nurturing habits.

You guys had to go through so much crap and struggle that I did not.  from all the stories from everyone it sounds like there was a lot of survival/existential struggle, & emotionally abusive fighting.
I admire your career tenacity, and determination and even being excellent mothers.
For all that I admire about you, is one issue I wonder if you've ever considered, because I don't recall you ever saying or behaving in a way that would suggest you get it. Despite all the disadvantages, (body) shaming, shit you had to endure, you had one huge developmental &; emotional windfall that outranks any material advantage I may have had: YOU HAD EACH OTHER .  Do you know if there are studies that confirm how emotionally beneficial having siblings you're close to , even if you don't always get along?

It would make a difference if I could hear you acknowledge your blessing, & you're still close to this day. Who do I have?  Did I ever have anyone to assuage my loneliness or feeling that I had no one on my side? That no one understood me, to at least verbally talk through the abuse I went through or the constant bullying I received at school?

For a brief moments Mom was on my side, Mar was often emotionally supportive, Dad was always supportive.  But the relationship of having someone in your peer/age group involves a level of understanding that you can't get anywhere else in the world, except maybe in a rare friendship.    I hope you're grateful for that exceptional advantage you had. Gratitude is paramount in healing and happiness.  

I AM GRATEFUL that I was spared all those emotionally abusive parental arguments and the torturous divorce that our parents went through.  Although mom and dad liked to retell some of those stories, and the highlights are still seared in my memory.

And while it would be nice for you to speak for yourselves on this matter, you usually don't. You usually speak the automatic knee-jerk Pain Body talk that comes from the seat of fight-flight-freeze response (known as the cerebellum & brainstem).
Everyone in our family has been hearing that repetitious song for decades [generations] especially on the Fulnecky side of the family.

A reckoning should mention these circumstantial evidences, but not give them the same spotlight as we should/would give a unique or fully empowered or fully self expressed free-willed testimony.  Because those are complaints and ideas that belong to most if not all humans.  Those are verbalized expressions of the older, instinctual parts of our brain: the parts that we share with lobsters (Dominance and hierarchy).

The thing that I think impedes us most from being a healthy family (that shares joy & support vs attacks) is how we talk to each other.

All five of us still attack ourselves as well as each other. Brain scientists, developmental & therapeutic psychologists, coaches, science-based teachers, Journalists, lawyers, politicians base their careers on the FORMATIVE POWER OF WORDS. And they have demonstrated in study after study  that WORDS MATTER.

Words are critical to relationships, to the formation of healthy brains, self esteem, and frankly it's embarrassing how much we use words to harm in our family.

And there appears to be a randomly enforced prohibition on using positive encouraging words, which is scientifically and psychologically reprehensible.

If I could help free you from the self hate that you were taught, if I could encourage or teach you to silence your voices of criticism, and to love your body, I would.
Hell, I'm still on the journey, like you.
It would just be nice if we could support each other on that path.

But I've had to release the notion that one day you might come to embrace me as a full member of this family. 

Michelle and Jennifer have told me in so many ways that they don't feel so much like I'm their brother but more like a distant cousin, because I was born under different circumstances, I didn't see or experience the same exact trauma; although I experienced plenty of it In different ways. Have you ever tried do you understand that you don't have the unique privilege of being the eternal winners of victimhood or that you live your life better than I live mine?

I'm guessing you think I had it much easier, but if your powers of compassionate sight were clear you could see how probably I was not made to suffer much less than you if any less, my sufferings were just different. 
I belong to a different generation, a different mindset, my brain as a man is also biochemically different than yours.

But it seems that we sibs keep returning, some of us more than others, to a world of comparison, another feature of a destructive way of being. 

I'm ready to put that behind me and so I have to communicate this regardless of whether you agree with it, regardless whether you even read it.

It's the stuff I'm past ready to confront, forgive, heal, & And reclaim the energy that has been wrapped up in pain & blame.



Blackbird singing in the dead of night just take these sunken eyes and learn to see/All your life you were only waiting for this moment to be free
blackbird singing in the dead of night take these broken wings and learn to fly/all your life you were only waiting for this moment to arrive

I also apologize for sounding sanctimonious. Sometimes heartfelt sincerity comes off that way especially when you want things to be better.


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The Failures of Modern Culture: Observations on the decay of community in nonagrarian society. AKA Bowling Alone Because Everyone Else is Working

ESSAY: The failures of a nonextended family / nonagrarian culture; and the reemergence of feudalism.

You know what I find very ironic or just strange as hell?

It seems that in our culture it's rare for two adults to engage in a mentor/apprentice relationship unless money is being exchanged, or the very least, that one person is significantly older and has the right titles.  My attempts with friends to advise, teach, lead by example or even just give biking, swimming or driving lessons often end poorly.    I find it's a rare ego indeed that can humble itself enough to trust the judgment of another over their own, much less to be willing to re/learn something new.

I understand my perspective is limited to the ten-ish different families/ tribes/groups of people I've immersed myself with in Alabama, Germany, Austria, Ohio, Indiana, and the DMV.


IMHO it's ironic that I've been thirsty and hungry, unable to find the consistent life mentor I've been seeking since age 17.  Because somehow logically I would think that there are people out there who would love more than anything to mentor a young person, especially as there seems to be relatively few young people out there willing to be mentored.

I mean there are probably hundreds of mentorship programs in the United States alone for teenagers up to the age of 18. But after that… If you're lucky enough to go to college you have academic support services. There are professional therapists, and rarely someone in your workplace who can give you some advice now and then.  But all of that falls far short of the resources you would have when living near extended family full of wise elders.

Young parents and even not so young parents are rarely full of deep wisdom, positive mental fortitude & healthy boundaries. So why does it seem like I am so alone in wanting help to make up for the lack of wisdom in my own family?

I can tell you that if my family had been more agrarian/ extended-family centric I would've been a hell of a lot better off.  Growing up around grandpa and grandma, great aunts and uncles, I also know my sisters would not of had eating disorders, we would've had elders to guide our family out of irrational decades-old family grudges.

But instead elders were always like these very distant angels I had rare access to.

Any sort of physical or monetary assistance and inheritance just isn't equivalent to golden wisdom, (while I'm still really grateful for ALL gifts and social privilege I've received)

Part II:  The decay of traditional modes of upward mobility and the suppression of community.

I think the suppression of wages and the enshrinement of corporate welfare in our political and legal system is also to blame.  Communitarian values suffer when one is forced to compete and spend all of one's time on wage slavery, that is there is NO TIME TO CULTIVATE PERSONAL or SOCIAL GOODNESS.  I have lived in and among people from different societies on the feudal/libertarian-democratic/socialist spectrum.   The social differences and patterns between socio-economically libertarian /Darwinistic countries and those where one doesn't fear for survival and spend ;most of their waking moments securing themselves and their immediate progeny have long demonstrated higher quality of life... both subjectively and by raw quantitative per capita income data.

Most western Europeans can afford to be informed and cultivate socially-bonding leisure activities. And most if not many consistently poor countries have social stratification (CLASSISM) and cultural norms that counteract social or economic democracy.  Accepted radical income disparity and the lack of social welfare is allowed by law.  No matter how economists and politicians want to slice or dice it, there has never been an effective free market solution that creates or supports a high quality of life or a STABLE, DEMOCRATIC, fair, fully participatory, low unemployment economy.  While there have been benevolent and charitable despots (Qatar, etc), peasants aren't guaranteed the philanthropy will continue, the laws won't change by decree when times get tough, or regimes change.  Look at history.

History is also where you should look for proof of the strength of democracy over the unregulated free market.  Greece, Rome, vs Persia. New Europe vs Old Europe for gods sakes!  The gradual democritization of Europe, and yes, most of the world is not a fluke.  The "arc of justice" is not  a pretty fantasy (like the never-realized fictions of Ayn Rand or volatile autocracies), SOCIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE ARE INCREASING BECAUSE THEY WORK.  Anyone who denies that democracy is not the best system for long term prosperity, stability, peace, and stability is not connected to reality.   Anyone who denies or equivocates that economic libertarianism is synonymous with democracy is equally deluded.  Just as I and anyone else would be VERY ignorant to believe or promote the idea of complete economic socialism or regulation.  Economies and systems MUST flex with changing population, migrations, technologies, weather, climate, knowledge, conflicts, etc.  That's why we have scientists in positions of power of the SEC, Treasury, Federal Reserve, etc... to provide TEMPORARY and targeted easements of regulation, changes in production and lending rates, and other forms of stimulus.

Instead, our country has diluted its own overall economic power and security by allowing divestment in social infrastructure and living wages.  Corporations are now free range entities with little accountability. They may hurt persons, deplete resources, or worsen communities with minimal impunity, in fact, often less accountability than government.  They claim to be creators, and only having the ability to create in a minimally regulated environment, but then they want the protection of the corporate welfare state when other countries also play by those same unethical and dysfunctional Darwinist rules they promote.  How can one blame China and other countries for not playing fair, like with intellectual capital (copyright or patent infringement) when such stealing is the exact result of free market lax regulation? This is ignorant and childish hipocrisy plain and simple.

Henry Ford knew what the New Deal architects and 20th Century Western Europe have proven; that legally binding socio-economic contracts including living wages (wages which enable savings, paying off debts, and an amount of leisure) increases profitability even for the top 1%.  It is simply the pointless hoarding (no-flow) of capital within the economic elite that retards stability.

Libertarianism d/evolves into feudalism.  And we see many neo-feudal nations today, most of which are defined by the supressed hopes of millions, and apathy of most of its citizens.  Because there is such limited upward mobility, few ever see the possibility to live as anything more than impoverished neo-peasants.  Cultural tools such as class, education, language, and race status maintain the feudal economic system.  Both the powerful and the powerless millions remain apathetic.  Why foster aspirations of good health, education, and material comfort when there is little real democracy?   Instead, the permanently oppressed poor tolerate the status quo and spend their time socializing instead of competing, boot-strapping, or climbing socio-economic ladders.  

























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