Money
Money is in the air!!
Not necessarily in the concrete, but certainly it is impossible
to go anywhere without hearing or partaking in a conversation about it. The two Presidential hopefuls are
decrying the greed of Wall Street that has led America and the world to the
edge of the abyss. There hasn’t been such negativity displayed toward the
wealthy since the 1930’s. Alas, it is no coincidence. Steve Frazer, the author
of “Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace? says, “This feels very similar,
historically, to 1929 and the emotions that filled the air in the months and
years that followed the crash. There is a sense of shock and astonishment,
which is followed by a sense of rage, outrage and anger directed at the centers
of finance.?
It
was after the ?29 crash that the rich first became the objects of scorn. In movies of the 1930’s, the rich are
depicted as old, doddering useless people, without social or moral conscience.
Everyone who ever saw a black and white movie can recollect a wealthy character
depicted in a denigrating way. George Bernard Shaw summed up the American mood
with his statement: “What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the
matter with the rich is uselessness.? That sentiment led, in the 1940’s, to an
idea of a noble working class man, equally absurd on the surface, but one that
had legs that ran all the way into the 1960’s glorification of the individual.
I find it intriguing. I wonder if the next John Steinbeck is typing away
frantically with the dust bowl wind howling at his oil-skin covered windows
about the plight of the working man. Already I’ve seen two different newspaper
stories about the excesses of the wealthy. The behaviors described were equally
fascinating and repulsive. And that’s what makes America so great. Americans hate the rich up to the very
point that they become rich. And they have a faith that stretches reason to the
extreme, that they, each and every one of them, might someday be rich. These
are fascinating days. As to me, I am less grandiose about the idea of money or
the lack of it. I tend to side with Woody Allen who once said, “Money is better
than poverty , if only for financial reasons.?
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