Society

This is part four in the series this week from JB Shreve and the End of History.   Unlike those in poverty, when you’re middle class you usually know you are struggling. Struggle defines your lifestyle. Every day is a struggle...

Part 3 in my series on the American Caste System looks at what it's like to be poor in America. This begins to explain why we have class conflict.

The experts want us to believe that confusing middle class statistics are for them alone to understand. It's not as difficult as they make it to be.

Increasingly the middle class can be defined less by what a household earns and more by what it no longer has access to. (The American Caste System: Part 2)

The recent debates on extreme poverty in America miss the larger realities of the changes and threats within the American economy and caste system.

Children were used to clear mine fields or in the "human wave" strategy of attack where hordes of bodies were more or less just thrown at superior Iraqi artillery in an effort to overcome them. 

This is our America. This is why we are growing more stressed out and frustrated every day. It is why we are avoiding each other more and isolating to our corners of the fractured pieces of American identity and ideology. It is why the echo chambers of political perspective are gaining ground and influence but independent thought and the peacemakers are losing ground.

The influence of the American media has empowered and accelerated the decline of American democracy. We are quickly changing to a media-ocracy.

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln   Yesterday’s podcast episode (11/9/16) looked at the issue of social divisions in America that have been at the center of our culture this election year. The political polarization within America was...

The anger and fear in America today is brought about by a broken trust. We have a responsibility to stand above the fray.