It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy - and, fair play, given much back - to realise that there is a time to be a well-heeled revolutionary.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
In the underdeveloped countries, we have young men and women, many of them of capacity but without opportunity to improve themselves. They cannot do so without help.
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.
The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.
Young men preen. Old men scheme.