I fortunately have never been shipwrecked, nor had my genitals mutilated, and for that, I am relieved.My animosity toward the capitalist mentality stems from growing up in a comparitively wealthy neighborhood. Maybe I should back track a bit... I spent the first third of my life in a lower class neighborhood with my single mother. She re-married someone who was considerably better off than we were. Hats off to him! I got to live in nicer neighborhoods and go to better public schools than most. However, the other people in the community and my classmates were all extremely affected by their social status. They took it upon themselves to become judge, jury and executioner when it came to treating 'outsiders' like some sort of creeping fungus. Anyone who wasn't from their neighborhood or income bracket was automatically a pariah. One kid who they got their claws into went nuts and started dressing like a woman. He dropped out of school, and last I heard he was living in a commune in Seattle.
They were better off than most people, they knew it and treated others accordingly. I wish I could say that that was just kids being kids, but I met some of their parents, and they were pretty much the same way.
That's my problem with the wealthy. They think that they're the only ones who deserve dignity, education and a fair shot in life, and everyone else can screw off; then they get to hide behind 'the weak and the strong' dichotomy, when most of them were from upper class families to begin with.
I didn't get to go to an Ivy league school; my folks have no connections. I'm probably going to be in the low income bracket for my whole life, no matter how hard I work or how many community college classes I take, and my 'raw smarts' don't really count for anything, because I'm not gifted with the ability to know how to make money.
As such, I don't really care that much about preserving "the established order." As far as I'm concerned, if you (the hypothetical you) have got money, you've already got a strike against you. If you're pro-capitalist, you're just regurgitating what you've been inculcated with by television and the educational system, and are incapable of rational or objective thought.
