Idiot: "Insecurity Is the Real Enemy: To combat today's discord, promote economic security"

Driving in traffic last week I found myself behind a pickup truck that was sporting a fluttering “Trump 2020” flag in its bed and numerous bumper stickers on its tailgate. One sticker in particular caught my eye. It read: “I Fight Poverty – I Work!”

It occurred to me that this message, with all that it implies, seems to reflect a generally accepted American belief that contributes to much of today's divisiveness: the notion that the existence of economic insecurity is actually a good thing – not a problem to be solved, but a value to be welcomed. [No, it's just a fact of life; a fact to be accepted - that reality doesn't guarantee security.] Poverty is not the result of any systemic failure, this principle holds, but more likely the personal failure of the impoverished.

Underlying the American work ethic is a quasi-libertarian idea that the possibility of impoverishment is a necessary element in a functioning economy. We work hard not only to achieve some level of wealth, personal fulfillment, and social status, but also, and perhaps more importantly, to avoid the converse – poverty, misery, and squalor. [Distinction without much difference.] In the free-market mythology that we are taught from a young age [State schools inculcate the catechism of the state religion, which is statism.], this risk of doom is needed to motivate us to work hard and generate prosperity. [It does motivate us. Life vs death]

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/our-humanity-naturally/202012/insecurity-is-the-real-enemy

shuddup

The real enemy is infantile rejection of the reality that values must be achieved.

Idiot: "Insecurity Is the Real Enemy: To combat today's discord, promote economic security"

Idiot: "Insecurity Is the Real Enemy: To combat today's discord, promote economic security"

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