Money as an American Value

I have been thinking about this a lot lately in my struggles to understand the world around me-I guess in my struggles to define the things I am seeing I have started making these connections with the things that seem to make the world go round. I guess we are all trying to find our own meaning in the things we do--maybe again I don't have the luxury of a child to shrink my focus down to something manageable, something meaningful in a lot of ways. I think the things we leave, the legacies in whatever fashion format or space we allot--either with our words or images, song, it's an art, all of this, dancing around the edges of meaning something huge and basically realizing you will die and nobody will fucking remember you for more than the moment you crossed their path. I got into a thing the other day discussing healthcare and what the ACA did versus how people are treating it. Now--I would have had a fuck of a lot more respect if people actually fucking saw what the hell the ACA did ultimately. I can say this with absolute certainty because I fell victim to it as ...