What a bizarre article. You articulate the problem quite well but fail utterly to see the root causes, encourage radicalism of one sort while decrying the powerless’s retreat from and rejection of that radicalism, denounce ideology while espousing continuation of the ideology that has wracked our nation, and pay no heed to the causes and perpetrators of the cancerous growth of authoritarianism that has ceaselessly spread across the globe since WWI.
On top of all that strangeness, you continually assail corporations, while at the same time complaining that not enough people are employed by them? You complain that people have too much freedom, while people are less free than they have been for 100 years? You assault self-employment and employer choice while complaining people don’t have enough income or economic influence with employers?
Your insights into the problem are good but your arguments regarding solutions are oddly self-contradictory and self-defeating. I have to wonder if it wouldn’t be productive to engage in some introspection regarding your own ideology and how it contributes to the problems you’re concerned about.
I didn’t make my comments to be rude or dismissive, I think you’re very close to a big (and meaningful) mental breakthrough here, but you need to go a few steps further to see not only what the issues are, but where these issues are coming from, hence the questions I pressed you with in my comments. Keep up the thinking, you’re like 80% of the way home.
