American society is rigged. It is designed so that the educated, connected elites succeed and everybody else fails. There’s no sugar coating it. By the age of 12, children of the wealthy are four grade levels above their peers and 77 times more likely to go to an Ivy League school. Once they reach adulthood, more than 54% of people at elite workplaces attended the same 34 elite colleges. What does this mean?
This means we have created an American cast system. Yes, we have created a cast system even though we pretend not to have one. You want to succeed in life? Get a quality education at a prestigious school, join a fraternity or sorority, and network your way to a prosperous future in business, law, engineering, medicine, or politics. Aviation is another path, but although most anyone can learn to fly, not everyone can be an airline pilot.
But that’s not the worst. The worst things we did were spiritual. In the pursuit of secular enlightenment, we privatized morality and destroyed the moral order by minimizing the importance of faith and dismantling the family nucleus. We have taken that essential moral fabric that holds society together, and we have decided it’s up to the individual to find their own truth. Find their own values. Set their own standards of behavior and determine what is right and wrong depending on what each feels.
Therefore, America and Europe have become societies burdened by mental problems and the masses of the uneducated, low-income, government-dependent. Forty-five percent of high school students report feeling persistently hopeless and despondent. The numbers are even worse in inner cities and immigrant communities. What does that predict for the future? I will tell you.
SciFi novels and movies have been long-time predictors of the future, and in the not-too-distant future, we will have a society where there are only two tiers of people: the “haves” and the “have-nots.” The rulers and the serfs. The masters and the slaves. There will be no middle class, that time-honored ladder for the have-nots to climb above their station. Regardless of talent, creativity, work ethic, perseverance, physical endowment, or criminal ingenuity, anyone not born into the tier of the elites, will never, ever, climb above their social status.
The elites will live in a world of excess opulence in their secured enclaves, surrounded by high walls and layers of protection, traveling by air between their luxurious dwellings, never coming in contact with the masses of the poor. With the advancements in robotics, their needs will be attended to by artificial intelligence. Their life spans extended by that same technology. And the masses?
They will live a miserable existence provided by a meager universal basic income, a living wage as they call it, crushed by the weight of inactivity and hopelessness. Their spirits crushed by the certainty of never improving their situation. Many will waste away, their bodies made sick and their life spans cut short by addiction to drugs and poor nutrition. Those living in rural areas may fare better than their urban counterparts, if not forced into megacities.
I have seen the future and it scares me. This is not what I want for my children. It breaks my heart to know I’m powerless to prevent what my children’s children could face. I pray I am wrong, or that the Christ makes his second coming before this nightmare existence becomes reality.
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