But this is in a wealthy rural community. She is a workaholic striving for the millions. Her son just got a seriously drunk dui, and I had to wonder why, and how he can get back on track. I was that way once.

It is much easier to get healthy and stay healthy than to have to pull oneself together at a later age. We can't afford what has been happening for a long time. Decades now.

The most healthy person I've ever known had a father who had an inheritance, and practiced architecture from his home. Smart, present, and not adversarial parents.

If only Bernie's message could take hold in reality.

Our culture as currently constituted is a horrible fit for a lot of personalities who could be much more comfortable and productive in a different social milieu.

Sociologists have studied the potentially toxic effects for years while we lived in a Mass media society; now, we have seen the Mass model crumble away in favor of some kind of "social media" whose character and purposed remain ill-defined. Possibly this amorphous new communication is even more insidious in that the voices "in ones head" are in fact emanating from a device, and wherein reality is even more suspect.

I appreciate the post.