reply to post by aletheia
all the middle class can do is to whine about modern problems. I couldn't care less about "modern problems," and here's why:
Patriarchy: The white, Western, middle class male invented and built almost every road, every house, every theory, every bit of literature you've
ever encountered in our lives. Without him, we're nothing.
Income inequality: For every piece of careless immigration policy, minimum wage system and union mob people advocate, we'll effectively lower the
wages for yourself and your parents, who'll continue to support either a government nanny state(Democrats/socialists) or multicorporation
control(Republicans/conservatives).
Climate change: You want the infrastructure, you want the prosperity, you want the lifestyle you're in right now--we are a walking environmental
disaster. No matter how much toilet paper we recycle, we'll never change this simple truth.
Iraq/Gaza War: Every super power tries to moderate fundamentalist enemies before they take over. If you'd studied history, you'd know, but since you
believe we just all need to get along with everybody and have a giant UN-party, you're lucky at all to see the day, every day. The people who live in
these countries don't agree with you, and they don't need your sympathy. That's why they carry guns.
Racism: One camp thinks white people are going to go extinct like dinosaurs by 2050, another camp thinks white people are going to oppress every
single non-white individual in the world by 2050. The truth: we're just not going to get along, so society will decline as a result and everyone will
complain and feel unjustly treated. Diversity? Ha ha ha!
Capitalism: The crisis of capitalism? We've already been through the Cold War. Not even China or Russia believes in socialist economies anymore. The
problem is not the system itself, but what values we attach to it. If nations are greedy and kill their economies, they are motivated by wrong values.
Money, we'll always need, unless you want to go back trading copper for dolphins.
You cannot trust the public, because it doesn't know what it says or does, and as follows, you cannot really trust the leadership that panders to
that same public. It's a vicious cycle of stupidity. But blaming the People or the Authority doesn't work either. Instead, trust yourself.