American Entropy

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Remarkably pertinent:

              I'm in the third generation of a family fortune.               
              I was disinherited from this fortune, which means 
              I am free from the obligations and the codes of 
              inherited wealth. I have been kicked out of the 
              club so am happy to teach you the secret hand-shake. 
              It also means that I have been thrown back into the 
              first generation -- forced to invent my world, to play 
              jazz. For a man who has inherited wealth, even a 
              man, like Trump, who inherited wealth then turned 
              it into more wealth, it will always Grandpa's world. 
              That's why Trump puts his name on everything. 
              He's a kid saying to himself in the dark, "I am here, 
              I am here, I am here. . . .

              . . . .I have watched all this with a sense of strange 
              detachment -- as if I was seeing not the story 
              of my family, but the story of the nation personified 
              in a life of a business. It is the story of how a legacy 
              corrupts over time. It is what Thomas Pynchon calls 
              entropy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rich-cohen/american-entropy_b_44642.html