>Since I raised it,
>I'll reveal my own unproven hypothesis: people in the
>U.S. don't give a damn about inequality.
Or so they say. What they feel in their heart of hearts is another matter, or what they feel at some unconscious level. Walk into any bookstore in the Land of the Free and you confront a wall of addiction/recovery and self-help books. Americans pop Prozac and other psychotropics like candy. At some level, whether they can articulate it or not, they feel damaged. They lack any kind of vocabulary to express their alienation, anxiety, and resentment - any vocabulary, that is, beyond the individualized strategies of writing better resumes and various forms of self-blame and scapegoating. But that's what comes from living in a society as polarized and volatile as ours. So whether they give a damn or not, it affects them down to the core. But just don't say anything, or you might be condemned as a malcontent, whiner, or worst of all, a loser.
Doug