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Sure, as I said - we got problems, and lots of em. I'm hoping more people wake up to this.

It's always a problem when we lose pragmatism towards what's really going on in society. And I think a tendency to cover one's eyes and pretend nothing is happening or it's not their fault or that professionals should handle all the problems is a perennial issue that manifests itself in different ways but essentially always comes down to the same thing.

You're right, a lot of these things really are killing the individual generally and any single individual's ability to take control of what's going on around them. While I'd be last to scream "conspiracy!!", I think it's also true that in a lot of cases what's producing it is an overbearing bureaucracy of so-called experts who know better than the average person about everything. Got a problem? Don't you even try to move, we'll do everything for you! And if you do move, you're in serious trouble - that's really the key here I think. All that professional effort would be so much better-spent teaching people to help themselves, but that'd take away jobs from the professional "helpers", wouldn't it? And that's the real reason for it, I think.