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Do Americans   disbelieve   in privilege for purely ideological reasons, or is it due to a basic misunderstanding? Photo by   Arseny Togulev   on  Unsplash . . Originally Published on Medium . . Privilege seems to be most fiercely denied, or downplayed when it comes to skin-color, and somewhat less so, gender. Yet, Americans, who seem to discount the prevalence of privilege in every way, surely cannot believe there is no such thing as privilege, except conceding that a person with considerably more wealth than another person is privileged. To that end,   what other areas of life do we see privilege playing out on a daily basis? . Most of these other categories of privilege are not politically or ideologically challenged. Particularly, if I mentioned these categories in a one-on-one conversation, without mentioning skin color or gender privilege. While you, and I are not in a face-to-face venue now, I hope to provide some context about how privilege seeps in...

(Photo by   Vladimir Fedotov   on   Unsplash ) First published on Medium . . Notice how the movie makers regularly come up with scary systems, or A.I. that will someday, somehow control human society?   HAL   from   2001: A Space Odyssey   did it.   The Matrix,   and   Skynet   from   Terminator   also took over humanity.   Why are we allowing such a thing to happen, even if it is only in movies?   It is because the   They   figure we are mostly chumps, and consider the great bulk of Americans a democratic   mob . . Not sci-fi or screen writers necessarily, but the way our political system always ends up getting more convoluted, and self damaging. The   They   is a nebulous entity   We The People   originally formed, and now have little real control over. While politicians and the wealthy have much of the power, even their control is limited. The   They   slowly tie up...

  Total Toe To Toe Combat Becomes Complete Face To Face Cooperation  (Photo: Jonathan Tomas / Unsplash ) First published on Medium . Why are we split on our economic theory? Does there need to be a huge gap in incomes and wealth? Is a worker and citizen utopia possible? Is there a third-way economic paradigm to rebuild our society on? These are questions I have tried to answer for the last decade. Luckily, I have found all the answers to overcome America’s economic theory schism. Thanks… Thank you… Yes, thank you… . Okay, maybe praising my accomplishments is premature. That said, what I have developed could be the answer. To begin, here are three preparatory considerations I decided would best clear the slate for creating a new economic paradigm. 1) Remove every part of all economic theories. 2) Decide what is not working, drop it, or revise it, put in the new paradigm elements. 3) Finally, reinstall everything that still works. It must be done in this order to avoid conta...