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Originally Posted by simpleyme
Disney steve since you seem pretty down to earth , do you find it a complement when people like syracusa glom onto you when they find out you are a Doctor?
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Cheap move, Mister. I found Disneysteve's posts decent/the type I could relate to waaay before he disclosed he is a doctor. He just sounded like a decent individual and for starters, his writing was at least not full of typos, bad grammar and all sorts of illiterate comments. I also thought that most of the arguments he brought made sense.
I do not care an inch about
doctors per se (as a matter of fact you would be surprised to find out I do not have a great opinion about MOST of the ones practicing in this country). Besides, I have seen tons whose only preoccupations outside of profession reflect a downright brutish/uneducated way of life and of course, a passion for money...and trust me, I would not want zilch to do with them. So how about all you, self-proclaimed "Down-to-Earth" "egalitarian", non-discriminatory folk (yeah, right!) take it a notch down and see
your own biases when you imply that anyone with a "simple" lifestyle, a pick-up-truck, a sports obsession and a big-screen TV is the epitomy of the "PERFECT AMERICAN FOLK". This "wonderful American folk", ironically, has everything going on for them, including "grace", "education", "character" and everything in between ...but without ever reading a thing beyond the sports page or going anywhere beyond the sports arena, right?.
I have had the less-than-great fortune to bump into enough such individuals in the past years and their spoilt, consumer-driven, parochial, excessive, brutish and yes, painfully uneducated mentalities do not do any favors to Humankind in my opinion. (And when I pick a neighborhood to live in, trust me, I will do it based on MY OPINION and not someone else's!!).
As a matter of fact, I find them as dangerous to humanity as it gets because of their nonchalant ignorance, obtuse indifference, limited horizons coupled with an eternal sense of entitlement. So for me to want to live in a neighborhood where most people look and act like the type I have had unpleasent personal experiences with - would be downright irrational.
I have also been lucky to befriend very intelligent Americans (in fact the most intelligent and refined people I have ever had the honor to befriend were either American or British; they were "fancy" in the mind and character, not the wallet; they were wise, not "simple" - and yes, I have felt humbled every time). But let me assure you that the Americans who left that kind of impression on me were NOT anywhere close to the "simple folk" type you are so desperately and defensively trying to extol. Such defensive attitudes are based on pure doctrine - the oh, so fashionable egalitarianism of today - and not on reality.
And for clarification, DisneySteve has also posted arguments that I did not have "the pleasure" to agree with at all - in case you read other posts. So much for me "glomming" onto doctors. What a cheap comment. Geeez...I wonder, how many Pick-Up Trucks or PhD-s does it take to understand nuanced English?...
This is a really nice site for financial advice, frugal tips and the like. But I certainly have to start taking it for what it has to offer and not for its social commentary or "debating" qualities.