Re: FADAs gone wild

[Guest guest]

" No, they're not sarcastic, more's the pity. I was not quoting the replies

verbatim, just summarizing what I saw as their central theme and adding a

strong sarcastic twist of my own. It's the same stuff you've heard from

your own Nada/Fada, the themes of how " kids today " (where the " kids " in

question are in their thirties and forties, if not fifties and sixties) are

all a bunch of entitled slackers mooching off their parents, even though

the adult children in Crews' letter are not mooching off anyone. (Crews was

later interviewed and talked about how awful it would be to find out that

one of his kids had gone on public assistance, because obviously that would

mean they were failures as human beings, I guess. " Well, but... This is how

many, MANY people feel toward most other people on the PLANET. We live in a

culture that fosters this. In a time of more and more scarcity for most

average, regular, everyday working people, we're all turning on each other like

cannibals. All you have to do is go to liberal pages on facebook where they are

talking about saving Social Security and not cutting Medicaid and Medicare.

Look at the conservatives on there ranting that if someone is on public

assistance or unemployed, they should not even be allowed to vote! I see this

over and over and OVER. If we feel this way in this society about all people on

public assistance and all people unemployed everywhere--oh, and they're doing

this to people who work at Wal-Mart, " Oh, well, they are unskilled, they

shouldn't have a wage they can live on, if they want one let them work for it

and get a better job! " (Even though, um, there ARE no better jobs?) I mean,

that's the cultural climate we live in. If you have X high-powered job and X

amount of money, you are a good person and you deserve to have, and if not, you

are a bad person who deserves to starve. AND we should cut off your public

assistance, because you couldn't possibly deserve it anyway! If you feel this

way about all people, then of *course* you're going to be ashamed of your own

kids. It's all about the s, and no one who doesn't make big figures is

allowed to hold their head up for any reason. There's lots and lots and lots

and lots of that kind of thinking nowadays. I don't think it augurs good for the

society as a whole at all. --.