I wonder if fresh (not frozen, not canned) vegetable intake correlate with household income. I suspect it does. And I suspect it also correlates with overall health outcomes and life expectancy.
This is perhaps a truism, perhaps obvious, but I tend to often find myself trying to reason and think through basic concepts from their very beginning.
It occurred to me as well to comment on the idea of “socioeconomic status”. In America, do we really need the “socio”? Are not the rich the successful, and the successful the elite? There is no monarchy, and we tend not to value anyone who cannot get rich doing what they do.
Perhaps in some places religious leaders have some status, but that is the only real exception I can think of. Otherwise it is sports, movie and business folks who have made a lot of money and gained a lot of fame for it.
Who has heard of Doris Lessing? Albert Camus? Both heroes of mine. Yes, I think I am better, while recognizing that most people have never been exposed to better alternatives, and that eventually the job of people like me may be to help build a culture worth living in, where a third of us are not thinking about putting bullets in their heads or jumping off a bridge. You need a healthy ego to have the strength to swim against such a large, sucking whirlpool of vacuity and meaningless consumption and stupidity. People know Vince Neil, but not the great writers of the 20th century.
Yeah, I started with cucumbers. I am a bit of grumpy human being. I hurt all the time, emotionally, and it comes out whenever I stop holding it back. I continue to try daily and weekly to fix that. I will get there eventually. I will be a bit radioactive until then.