Roger -No, what you read is my morbid fascination running off to an extrema, at the nudging of Vonnegut when I was very young. And it was not and is not restricted to SWMs by any means. I'm worried about knee jerk reactions in *any* and all directions, not just toward SWMs.
Are our only options extremes such as all rushing headlong to become the new "robber barons" ourselves, based on your (possible) ability/agility to manipulate said "new social manifold" (great term by the way, unless it is just another way avoiding saying "landscape";) or taking the oppressive route as told in Vonnegut's tale of imposed social equality through handicapping everyone down to a least common denominator.
Wow.
The complaints that I hear are that women and people of color are routinely subjected to verbal abuse, harassment, threats of violence, and violence; african american males spend their lives in prison while privileged white males get slapped on the wrist for the same infractions. So society currently imposes drastic, life threatening handicaps on the disadvantaged.
The only fear that this engenders in you is that someone might impose handicaps on you, too? That would be an oppressive route?
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