Learned helplessness is a toxic meme

I apologize in advance for the length of this; somebody put a quarter in my slot.

Everything we have, every human “right,” was dynamited out of bedrock by our ancestors. It wasn’t a gift; it wasn’t assumed; and the forces of evil don’t want us to have that human dignity or control of our own fates because it interferes with their profit and power motives.

We have to keep dynamiting that bedrock of carelessness, of selfishness, of sociopathy. Of sophipathology, to use my own terminology with a free hand—this idea of Shareholder Value as a religion, this exploitation of a new gilded age.

We didn't manage to get out of the last gilded age without some risk and a lot of struggle. I have a feeling this one is gonna play out with difficulty also.