We are a nation of
consumers.
On the most part, when a
good is wanted, it is promptly invented, manufactured, grown, engineered,
erected, fabricated, cooked, processed, performed, built, textiled, formulated,
or designed. It is then available to be bought, borrowed, rented, credited, stolen,
inherited, harvested, awarded, or received. The ease of access to the end
consumer is remarkable, and the degree of ease is unassailably unique and
distinctive to our nation.
"Poverty" in America
is unalarming (see in particular Appendix Chart 1 • B 2607).
The supposed
"least" among us has extraordinary accessibility and obtainability of
a vast variety of goods. I now suspect this condition of life has existed for
sufficient time to allow related evolution to cure (set up) in America’s offspring. For
example, power was recently lost in my and several neighboring subdivisions,
and Torin, my two-and-a-half-year-old toddler, was forcefully—and seemingly
endlessly—insistent on buying “some moh powuhr at da store.” He innately “knows”
that anything can be retrieved from the store.
So as this evolution further cures, it appears to do the opposite of curing (healing, making better) our
society. We only ever become weaker (prideful, unappreciative, pampered, dependent, complacent)
in our perceived prosperity. America is devolving into a flock of newborn
chicks—he who helplessly chirps the loudest attains the handout. As a chick
naturally squeaks for its subsistence, so too do people now congenitally cheep for
fulfillment of their desires.
Grow some... wings, and earn
some power.
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