“they no longer believe they have agency to affect their own circumstances for the better”

I hit the wall yesterday after meeting an Indian IT worker who was installing a new medical records system at Cape Cod Ortho.

I felt the kind of rage that drives people to acts of violence, chemical addiction, suicide.

The source of my fury is the undisputed fact that success comes from looks and personality, not BS factors like hard work or risk-taking. I’m as trapped as a steel worker in Ohio or a coal miner in West Virginia, and by an elite, for sure, but not upper crust “liberals” per se.