tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post5988064823867033848..comments2024-03-27T14:45:28.176-05:00Comments on Adventus: White Man's BurdenUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-86170474129423066472014-03-13T15:43:47.290-05:002014-03-13T15:43:47.290-05:00Ryan's correction isn't really helpful to ...Ryan's correction isn't really helpful to him. Taking his words at face value, in rural areas it is the lack of jobs that leads to a breakdown of families and poverty. In urban areas it is men not working, not wanting to work, a culture of not working. Nothing about a lack of jobs in urban environments, and nothing about failed culture in rural areas. The poverty is the same in both places, I wonder what great insight Ryan has that he can identify failed culture in cities but only a lack of jobs in rural areas for the same poverty. Maybe as an experiment he can bring his culture to rural communities and see how that works out for him.rustypickuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17861692872132066016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-58921370815976476572014-03-13T12:55:55.612-05:002014-03-13T12:55:55.612-05:00"..of men not working and just generations of..."..of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work."<br /><br />Sounds like the 1% to me. Gore Vidal once said that he was sent to Phillips Exeter where men of his class who were going to have to work were sent. I think he included the other Phillips where the Bushes went. The really rich who would never have to work were sent to Groton. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-34571858861478507452014-03-13T12:52:46.746-05:002014-03-13T12:52:46.746-05:00I grew up in the Jim Crow South. In some ways, al...I grew up in the Jim Crow South. In some ways, all that's changed is that the laws are no longer enforced by the courts.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-75790802632882167352014-03-13T11:40:07.203-05:002014-03-13T11:40:07.203-05:00Good thing we don't have a literal religious &...Good thing we don't have a literal religious "test" to see whether our government officials actually know/follow the religion they claim to follow. Paul Ryan is a Christian? Did Jesus say "You still lack one thing. You need to get involved. Go show the benighted poor folk the value of hard work and resuscitate our culture thereby"? That's not how any text of Luke 18.22 that I've seen reads.<br /><br />Also, if there are no jobs, how about, um, providing people with jobs? Perhaps a Ryan, et al, could contact a modern day witch of Endor to speak to the spirit of Harry Hopkins about how to deal with their being no jobs. And once you start talking about the breakdown of social structures and families, like it or not, it's automatically about race: family destroying slave selling and slavery may have officially ended in the USA well over a century ago (which is not that long ago in the sweep of history), but the violent subjugation of African-Americans under Jim Crow ended not that long ago (*) -- and some would say, e.g. in our "war on drugs", the violence still continues -- and the corrosive effects such violence and brutal discrimination have certainly continue to this day.<br /><br />* I am young enough to still be considered a "whippersnapper", and I am married to a woman who was born in the Jim Crow South … so Jim Crow was not that long ago.alberichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03852752646926946626noreply@blogger.com