How people find their way to this collection of essays is a mystery to us. We don't advertise. Lately, however, there has been a really big uptick in visits that has us floored. We can't figure it out but we sure are happy about it. The river of this grand collective experience we call Life on Earth has so many moving parts that it is, most likely, unwise to push too hard on any given objective lest the fabric of inter-connectedness be ruptured. Even wisdom, itself, is only ever applicable when shared at the appropriate time, so that it can be applied to constructive action before it becomes too oft repeated and out of fashion. Better then, to commit what one has been working on to that great repository of ideas we call the Collective Unconscious, trusting that, when the time is right, it will work its way up through the subconscious minds of many to where enthusiasm first primes feelings of curiosity. The process of discovery that is lit in that manner has the force of personal agency that is free of the kind of demagoguery so many movements are bedeviled by. If an idea's time has come, it should have no need of a champion but, rather, flourish on its merits, alone.
Don't try to take in too much of what is written here in one sitting. Doing so will reduce its contents to verbiage. It was compiled over the course of countless bouts of writing, interspersed with backup discussions, the consulting of news articles and periods of contemplation. As a result, the argumentation is rather dense. You'll get mental indigestion if you read too much of it and your interest in issues of social equity may well suffer because of it.
If you glean a useful thing or two, rather than plodding on, leave off. The mind can't make much of more than a couple of good concepts at a time.
That said, we sincerely appreciate any smidgen of interest this work evokes. To be sure, how the national rental market affects the general economy - in particular, the spending power of younger and more financially vulnerable groups - is nothing to be sniffed at. Naturally, we think that a grievous financial arm-twisting is being perpetrated upon those Americans with the least ability to provide appropriate push-back and that local government, in too many places, plays an enabling role in the resultant shift of power, if only by willfully choosing to ignore the situation, on the old saw that it is just the so-called free market at work and that constitutional precepts preclude constructive action from being taken. Under that view, those who ultimately tire of the struggle to survive and fall by the wayside are nothing more than collateral damage, from whose demise we will not suffer, as a society.
Our essay not only takes issue with that point of view, but also goes on to suggest how government might act to make this particular engine of social inequity much less of a factor in the grander picture of inequality in America.
Once again, thank you for your interest. Happy reading!
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