“Why then, do we worship the idle rich, but save our endless scorn for the poor and homeless?” A serious query I’ve had for most of my life. It is a shameful truth among humans.
The poor and homeless make people feel ashamed. The idle rich give them something to "aspire" to. No one wants to feel shame, and everyone wants to be rich. That's the only way I can explain it.
A damming but truthful analysis - for me, part of the rise of the authoritarian right is little more than the draconian attempt of those who refuse to look squarely in the mirror and process the collective shame of what we have become in our pursuit of wealth at any cost - our genocidal and enslaved history, our rape of the earth, our stubborn unwillingness to face our national shadow. Ban the books, rewrite the history, deny, deny, deny the carnage.
“Why then, do we worship the idle rich, but save our endless scorn for the poor and homeless?” A serious query I’ve had for most of my life. It is a shameful truth among humans.
The poor and homeless make people feel ashamed. The idle rich give them something to "aspire" to. No one wants to feel shame, and everyone wants to be rich. That's the only way I can explain it.
A damming but truthful analysis - for me, part of the rise of the authoritarian right is little more than the draconian attempt of those who refuse to look squarely in the mirror and process the collective shame of what we have become in our pursuit of wealth at any cost - our genocidal and enslaved history, our rape of the earth, our stubborn unwillingness to face our national shadow. Ban the books, rewrite the history, deny, deny, deny the carnage.