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Originally Posted by ptownrob
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Many Villagers are totally out of touch with the mainstream of this nation. We live in a wonderful middle-class fantasy world.
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No matter how much you'd like to just bury your heads in the 13th hole of Hemmingway, there is a big world around us with huge, inhumane problems that need to be worked on.
Enjoy this great life, but don't assume it's available to "anyone" who works hard enough to get it. Life doesn't work that way, and our system ahs become only more and more skewed to favor those of us who start with money in the first place.
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These "out of touch" Villagers happen to consist of many people who currently work full and/or part time in every aspect of the society. Those who don't currently work-for-money have several decades in the "real world," and still spend incalculable numbers of hours as hospital volunteers, soup kitchen aides, prison ministry counselors, guardians ad litem, and a myriad of other "in-the-street" situations which take advantage of their life experience.
As far as "enjoying the great life," as demonstrated by these wonderful people, it includes an awful lot of giving-back by folk who have lived through those
huge, inhumane problems are are indeed still involved in solving them firsthand. So, if they do spend some time taking care of themselves, as they are still spending a lot of what they have left in life for the sake of others, they've earned it!