by phosphide » Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:19 pm
In regards to men, I just got done reading Hillbilly Elegy and quite frankly I just don't know what the solutions are to our cultural and socioeconomic problems. Tocqueville was right:
"I see an innumerable crowd of like and equal men who revolve on themselves without repose, procuring the small and vulgar pleasures with which they fill their souls. Each of them, withdrawn and apart, is like a stranger to the destiny of all the others: his children and his particular friends form the whole human species for him; as for dwelling with his fellow citizens, he is beside them, but he does not see them; he touches them and does not feel them; he exists only in himself and for himself alone."
I don't see a carrot that will instill a sense of urgency and desire to be educated and better oneself and their family (if they have one).
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will yet swell the chorus when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
- Abraham Lincoln