We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
It certainly does seem to exist in a cocoon of unreality, but so does much of higher ed to varying degrees. The comment on this piece about how the adults have let the kids down is to the point.
" and what happens to the next generation when adults forgo their obligation to enrich and pass on an inheritance. (This is what I refer to as the “Friday Night Lights” problem"
He'd call it the Oedipus problem, if Freud hadn't ruined that connotation. That's what the play is really about. But it's a good insight as to where blame lies.