Actually, my problem was that I don't have enough strength in the muscles of my hands and fingers to properly work with safety wire and the tools required. Yes, if I were ten times more brilliant and had somehow gotten the engineer's training I was hoping to get, I might be in a position to invent a better set of tools for people like me to work with safety wire. But the Catch-22? What do you think I was in school for in the first place?
(I'm reminded of that race in THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY [radio/stage play version] that thinks it can solve its problems by constantly evolving from one form to another--but winds up perpetually inventing new problems in the process.)
As for the issue of society not allowing the individual to succeed, well, I see SOME successful people in the world, so I can't say I blame society. But I blame the economic environment rather than the state. The state isn't in as much control of events as it's given credit for being. The corporate and stockholder interests are in far more power, and they are doing more damage to individual advancement and mobility than the state is, in my opinion.
(I'm reminded of that race in THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY [radio/stage play version] that thinks it can solve its problems by constantly evolving from one form to another--but winds up perpetually inventing new problems in the process.)
As for the issue of society not allowing the individual to succeed, well, I see SOME successful people in the world, so I can't say I blame society. But I blame the economic environment rather than the state. The state isn't in as much control of events as it's given credit for being. The corporate and stockholder interests are in far more power, and they are doing more damage to individual advancement and mobility than the state is, in my opinion.
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