Comment on Affluenza: The ‘Disease’ that Only Affects Rich People
- ” Affluenza ” as an excuse for vehicular homicide ? What a mockery of justice. It is the capitalist system, a class divided society, that diminishes ” social conscience ” even in the modest living, respectable middle class. It is no accident that many American judges can be moved by this morally insane defense. They are imbued with upper class values from their first day of law school. It is a rare judge that has read a word of Marx, Darwin, or Freud. Often their hostility to lower class people in their courtroom is blatant and shameless. THEY- the UNDERCLASS- are seen as ” scumbags ” in contrast to the ” Nice People ” of wealth . A most interesting essay titled ” Nice People ” was written by that old radical socialist, British philosopher Bertrand Russell. It seems that most of the nice people Lord Russell knew were quite nasty. He was briefly jailed for opposing the Great War-to make the world safe for nice rich people. Here “affluenza ” damned him !