So that my previous remarks don't seem unduly harsh, I should elaborate on them. She is intelligent and possessed of a high moral character, she was an investment banker who did not abuse her position, I've heard stories. For instance, and for your own benefit, there's a practice called churning where brokers will make recommendations for trades every year, and it's just for the commissions, it has nothing to do with the investor's benefit. She didn't do that, and most of them did, and she hated it.
But whether consciously or otherwise, she knows that if she seeks understanding, if she seeks the truth, she won't like what she finds, it will make her life much more uncomfortable and could precipitate a crisis. She could end up checking herself into the psych ward and practically drinking herself to death, like me. For most people, society is the default, but I always thought I was smarter than everyone else. I was going to make the world conform to me, not the other way round. So i understand her predicament. We've come a long way on lies and deception, but lies and deception cannot sustain a society for long. At some point, someone needs to check in on the truth, and that's what I did for two decades, trying to figure out Where We Went Wrong. Like Ignatius Reilly, I put it back to about four hundred years ago, when England decided they were better than Francis Bacon. America did the same thing to me.
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