That title is intended to be a bit sad and humorous at the same time.

I just got done reading this awesome report (PDF).

Many of the people who are highly successful in this country think they are successful exclusively because their own hard work and their own actions. WELL THAT'S FUCKING STUPID.

Growing up I perhaps did not have great financial or social bonus that many of the truely successful greed mongers did.

I deeply discount most of my childhood exeriences as having little value because I was for the most part withdrawn from society - a large part of that due to perhaps evil siblings that never skiped an opportunity to rip apart what little self esteem I had.

Now that I am kinda doing ok it would be easy for me to say that my success was do to my work alone. My friend Jason from Florida says I am a self made man.

that is not true thogh. Any success I have came across thusfar is primarily based upon:

• The fact that being a nuclear reactor operator in the navy on a fast attack submarine is probably worse than never living at all. The shitty organization that the US Navy is gave me the drive to never want to work for anyone else again. <--- eventually I aim to cause MAJOR REFORM of this organization.
  
• Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web for me to play on.
  
• The US Government funded a large part of the internet.
  
• The internet allowed me to ask people for free passes to conferences that cost thousands of dollars where I started learning about search engine marketing stuff.
  
• The web helped me find people like Seth Godin. It helped me also to learn faster than any school could have possibly taught me.
  
• The roadways and travel systems of this country allowed me to meet people like Seth in person.
  
• My mom taught me to work hard and to put others before yourself.
  
• My dad taught me to live cheap.
  
• The web gives me a sense of purpose and allows me to reach other people and creates the marketing networks I can do well on.

It would be entirely easy for me to be overly bitter about the navy and just say fuck this county. There are many things that are good about this country though.

What works well in growing humanity is when one generation reinvests into the next. Sadly things such as war or the cold war are sometimes needed to inspire reinvestment.

Now it seems as though we are in a period of confusion where

• despite the fact we are fighting many wars few people are exactly sure why.
  
• we are spending huge amounts of money on arbitrary narrow wealth generation systems - which are costing lives daily.
  
• while cutting taxes we are also cutting education funding, thereby further narrowing the wealth funnel on multiple fronts - making it harder for this land to be a land of opportunity.
  
• we are guided day to day by arbitrary fear concerns that have little sound logic - which prevent us from focusing on our true purpose.
  
• if life has absolutely no other purpose at the bare minimum children should be offered a better chance to find their true purpose than their parents were.
  
• progress is not based upon capital or influence unless you are narcissistic.
  
• the world as a whole works better when more people have an opportunity to dream and to achieve those dreams.
  
• in submation, if you vote for the current president you are too ignorant to deserve the life you have been given.

good or bad environment, luck, and timing have more to do with the results of life than most people give credit for.

as a funny side note, I was unsure how to spell "narcissistic" and any of my writing profits will partially be due to spell check <--- thank you from the bottom of my heart

and also while searching for that word I found guaranteed a fix for my narcissistic problem they noticed while I was at the psych ward.

whatever that linden method is, it costs $83...certainly plenty of profit margin in healing that pain there. but who said greed is a bad thing.