If You Can Attribute Your Success Entirely

Even Healthy Families Need Outside Sources Of Moral Guidance To Keep Those Tensions From Imploding--and This Means, Among Other Things, A Public Philosophy Of Gender Equality And Concern For Child Welfare. When Instead The Larger Culture Aggrandizes Wife Beaters, Degrades Women Or Nods Approvingly At Child Slappers, The Family Gets A Little More Dangerous For Everyone, And So, Inevitably, Does The Larger World.

Middle-class-led Reform Movements, From The Progressive Era To The War On Poverty, Have Been Marred By An Elitist Distance From The Would-be Beneficiaries Of Reform.

Some People Make Stuff; Other People Have To Buy It. And When We Gave Up Making Stuff, Starting In The 1980s, We Were Left With The Unique Role Of Buying... We've Shopped Till We Dropped Alright, Face Down On The Floor.

You Can Turn Away The Mexicans, The African-americans, The Teenagers And Other Suspect Groups, But There's No Fence High Enough To Keep Out The Repo Man.

Among Other Things, [books By Bruce Doyle Iii And Mike Hernacki] Explain The Importance Of The "winning Attitude" I Have Been Urged To Adopt: A Positive Attitude "attracts" Or "fulfils", Depending On Which Author's Weird Science You Go With, Postiive Results, With Little Or No Action On Your Part Required. Herein, Too, Lies The Answer To The Question I Once Posed ...: Would It Be Enough Just To Fake A Winning Attitude? No Way, According To Doyle.