Those outfits rock! Canes, tophats. Gonna find one on eBay and do the rockafella waltz down 5th. What could be cooler?
some people prefer seclusion. __________________________________ Have you spoke to the average brain washed American in the last year? I prefer seclusion and small circle of friends. 90% of the US population are fucking idiots.
I think the only thing you isolated between these two groups is unhappiness and the need to fill a psychological void with material accumulation. Both are unhappy and will continue to be unhappy because they are aiming at the flames rather than at the source. Happiness will always be just out of reach for them, however far their reach may be. Happy people come in all socioeconomic configurations, as do unhappy people. However, reading about the unhappy rich just gives us more pause because it seems somewhat incongruent and makes us wonder about the source of our own happiness or unhappiness. And then there is the matter of the unhappy non-rich still having to get out of bed each morning and earn a living to pay their bills and survive. They are forced to live more in the present during such times, and must subordinate their unhappiness for fleeting lengths of time, as they set aside regrets of the past and worries about the future and so on. Whereas the unhappy rich can languish in self-pity more comfortably and devote more time to their unhappiness. In the end, the people who are genuinely happy, and not just masking the odor of unhappiness, are those who accept themselves and are happy from within. It's all been said before.
It is all about Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Inflation, unemployment, rapid societal change, a failing central gov't, etc. are taking their toll. So, there is a reason you are running into so many "fucking idiots". We probably won't recognize USA in a decade.