It's true that I don't view life primarily as a struggle between "good and evil." It would help, of course, if you defined what good and evil is, rather than just dogmatically using these terms. I tend to look at life in Darwinian terms, as "survival of the fittest", where those who are most intelligent and creative rule. Manipulation is an essential feature of human creativity and intelligence. So, I view Manipulation as a healthy, refreshing natural state of affairs amongst humans.
FWI, I do not accept the "status quo", nor do I even know what the "status quo" is, outside of the Old Gold Standard, which Nixon fortunately liberated this country from in 1971. Life and Being is Becoming for me. So, what you call the "status quo" is for me a continuous state of becoming which is preserved and surpassed in a higher state of being. Change is the Reality. Those who live in the Past will always look upon the Future as "Evil", as you and Richard do. To be sure, Change is not always Change for the Better. But we live in a free open society in North America where dissent is given an audience and is allowed to express itself. I call that Freedom and I am proud to be a citizen of this country.
What is your basis for referring to this economy as an "economic sewer?" This economy is a wealth of opportunity and the rest of the World knows it. That is why people all over the world look to come here and become citizens. You have no idea what Freedom is if you can talk that way. My Grandparents came to this country, as young children, without a penny in their pockets and the first thing they did when they got off the boat after seeing the Statue of Liberty, was to kiss the ground of this country for the opportunity to be Free. Opportunity here means just that: You have the opportunity to become what you desire here, but you have to learn how to think creatively and to feel for people and to provide solutions for their needs if you want them to patronize your business. The burden of responsibility and success or failure lies within the individual, not the government. But opportunity is there for all. I know that concretely because I taught High school in the 1980's in the worst ghetto in this country, in Fort Apache, in the South Bronx, where most of the students came to school with their blades(and got away with it because there were no metal detectors at the time) and were living in the most extreme poverty that you have ever seen. They were the easiest kids to teach because they were the most desperate to learn. I went to their homes and saw how they lived. I told each of them that the Government would completely fund their college education and that was their way out from their economic nightmare. Today, many of them are successful businessman and I service their children.
I don't live in an Ivory Gold Tower like you or Richard. I live in the real world where people prosper, suffer, love and strive to make their lives better. I don't live in a mutually exclusive politically correct world like you do.
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