I was educated and lived among thinking, connected people. And I was taught all people are equal in the eyes of God, in religious terms. So i believe in a bedrock principle of equal opportunity (not outcome).
I dont think that holds true for all America anymore, or even 70% of us. I wondered in the 60s what the drug culture long term wou…
I was educated and lived among thinking, connected people. And I was taught all people are equal in the eyes of God, in religious terms. So i believe in a bedrock principle of equal opportunity (not outcome).
I dont think that holds true for all America anymore, or even 70% of us. I wondered in the 60s what the drug culture long term would produce. I wonder if the long unraveling of a sense of collective culture beyond Me Me Me and identity politics has caught up to the underlying bigotry and jealousy that stirs 40% of the population and always has but was kept in check by those in leadership roles of both parties (who all have outsized influence and power). That check is gone and trump unleashed the worst in the population so that the hatred fueled by fear of the Other fused with the violence of uneducated rootless wastrels. And down we go.
I was educated and lived among thinking, connected people. And I was taught all people are equal in the eyes of God, in religious terms. So i believe in a bedrock principle of equal opportunity (not outcome).
I dont think that holds true for all America anymore, or even 70% of us. I wondered in the 60s what the drug culture long term would produce. I wonder if the long unraveling of a sense of collective culture beyond Me Me Me and identity politics has caught up to the underlying bigotry and jealousy that stirs 40% of the population and always has but was kept in check by those in leadership roles of both parties (who all have outsized influence and power). That check is gone and trump unleashed the worst in the population so that the hatred fueled by fear of the Other fused with the violence of uneducated rootless wastrels. And down we go.