I do think that shame is attached to every angle of class and financial discussion. Someone in the conversation mentioned culturally-Catholic guilt, and that also resonated very much with me. I also think a lot of it on the "below where I should be" thing is shame attached to the American concept of hard work generating success: if I'm not in a place that feels secure, is that my fault for just not working hard enough?
And on the "has too much" angle, there's a ton of shame related to whether or not you deserve all those resources, and whether you deserve to be on the positive sign of an inequality. Which is the genesis of a whole lot of that moralizing about how the rich got that way, of course, and tends to be the locus of a whole lot of guilt on the behalf of other people who are comfortable.
And then you apply all that to "where did I start out?" and that's another angle of interrogation.
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Date: 2019-03-10 01:52 am (UTC)And on the "has too much" angle, there's a ton of shame related to whether or not you deserve all those resources, and whether you deserve to be on the positive sign of an inequality. Which is the genesis of a whole lot of that moralizing about how the rich got that way, of course, and tends to be the locus of a whole lot of guilt on the behalf of other people who are comfortable.
And then you apply all that to "where did I start out?" and that's another angle of interrogation.