Chapter 4575: Day of White (41)

Still the same sentence, among major countries and large regional organizations with similar size, the middle class in the United States lives the worst, none of them. So their middle-class anxiety is the most serious.

Regarding climbing up, as long as there is a relatively clear upward channel, anxiety can be well alleviated. The middle-class anxiety in some developing countries is not so serious because their upward channels still exist—because they are in the rising period of social development. If you catch up with the wind of the times, then it is really hard work for a generation, and the whole family will be completely changed.

And relatively speaking, some old developed countries have their upward channels completely blocked. Society is horizontally subdivided too finely, and each class does what each class does. Even if there are some new winds, it will definitely not be the turn of the people below, which cannot play any role in alleviating anxiety.

And the falling part, old developed countries do relatively well, because of class solidification, people of all classes only play with their own people, and assets always fluctuate within a limited range. It is difficult to get rich, but it is also relatively difficult to fall so many layers in one breath, at most it is becoming the bottom in the level they are subdivided into, and life is still passable.

And in some developing countries, it is relatively terrible, because once you fall too much and go to some places with poor public security, it is possible to lose your life. This will cause serious anxiety.

From this, it can be seen why the middle-class anxiety in the United States is so serious, because they have both the shortcomings of "difficult to climb up" and "falling too fast and too seriously". The entire social narrative of the United States revolves around these two points. This is still relative to a typical middle-class family without any special circumstances.

Deathstroke is not a typical middle-class family. He is away from home all year round, which means there is a lack of people in this family. It sounds like nonsense, but it is actually very important. American middle-class families perfectly retain some characteristics of small-scale peasant families, and it is terrible to lack a main labor force.

Deathstroke does send money home, and gives quite a lot. But he doesn't show up to participate in family activities, which means it will put great pressure on other family members, especially social pressure. Mrs. Wilson needs to explain to others what her husband is doing, and his children also need to explain to others at school, and this kind of explanation is usually not very effective.

And all kinds of family gatherings, without the male host, are actually very troublesome. Because generally more conservative areas, specifically the American South, which is where Deathstroke's family is located, are the male host entertaining male guests, and the female host entertaining female guests.

Men grill meat in the yard, discuss firearms, vehicle maintenance, and world situations; women take their children to play in the yard together, and the topics are basically children, relatives, fitness, and beauty.

If the husband is not at home, there is no way to hold such family parties; if you don't hold them, you can't participate, otherwise you will be seen as a freeloader. Although Deathstroke can hold them after returning, because he rarely goes out to participate in gatherings, he can't invite many people, which forms a vicious circle.

In addition, it is very absurd that the American middle class advocates not working. To be precise, they are very pursuing "old money feeling". And what is old money feeling? It is waking up every morning to watch the asset income trend for half an hour, then go to fitness, spend a beautiful lunch time with family, make an appointment with three or five friends to play golf or fishing in the afternoon, have dinner with professional investors in high-end restaurants at night, and enjoy parent-child time before going to bed. Simply put, it is doing no business at all, and being idle every day.

What they want is "not working but very rich". The ideal state is to get everything they want without effort. "Without effort" is very important, even if it is pretending, it must be pretended. So although they may be anxious about their economic situation behind their backs, they must show a relaxed and comfortable appearance.

And at this time, the situation of the Wilson family will definitely be ridiculed. Because Mrs. Wilson can only explain to others that Deathstroke has "gone out to work". And in the eyes of the middle class of the same class, work that requires being away from home all year round must be very hard, and it is not effortless at all—after all, if there is a choice, who would be willing to drift outside all year round?

In their view, this kind of work is full of poverty, and it is a performance of maintaining life with great effort. No matter how much money Deathstroke gives to his family, they still look down on him.

What's more, as Schiller said, Deathstroke joined the army at sixteen and has not been in contact with ordinary people's society since then. He is neither interested in ordinary people's society nor does he go to understand it, so he will definitely show some disconnection and outdatedness, and he can't be popular at all. This makes the situation worse.

Children growing up in this environment will only have more serious anxiety because they will witness with their own eyes how their family is excluded. Their neighbors may not be too aggressive—after all, Deathstroke's family is still quite wealthy, and their food, clothing, housing, and transportation are not bad—but they will express it in small details.

For example, when decorating the house for Christmas, deliberately not telling you this year's theme; after you have finished decorating, you find that it is out of tune with the community. Then the children of the same age will deliberately mock during community gatherings. Or deliberately block the tutor's car outside the community, forcing the adults in the family to pick them up, leading to many tutors not being able to work for long, and then being rumored as "the child's personality is too bad, no teacher can stand it".

In short, in a country where middle-class anxiety is so serious, adding so many factors worth worrying about to yourself will make the child's childhood pass in an atmosphere full of insecurity. This is not good for the child's growth.

To deal with these malicious intentions, they must learn to use means within the rules to protect themselves. Mrs. Wilson must have done this a lot, such as expressing her views at community development meetings, checking community regulations to deal with deliberate difficulties, trying to pick some good families to associate with, and understanding school rules and regulations to stand up for her children.

It's not that they choose to do this, but they can only do this. After all, you can't let Deathstroke kill all these people. Although they were considered fugitives when they were young, since Mrs. Wilson chose to return to the family, she could no longer use this means to destroy her relatively stable life—otherwise, taking children to flee for their lives would only be worse.

Children will follow suit. Whether in elementary school or middle school, they will use the weapons of rules better than others to protect themselves to deal with all kinds of malicious jokes and targeting derived from "you have no father".

Then one day, they realized that their father was the fiercest beast in the jungle outside society, and the spear that the rules they held in their hands gave them was usually used to hunt such people. What would they think?

The fact is, the possibility that they would choose to stand on Deathstroke's side is very small. Because they know very well that they don't have the ability to return to the jungle with Deathstroke; they still have to live here, and here they have people they love and care about. Then they can only choose to expel Deathstroke.

This is indeed a bit unfair to Deathstroke. However, just like after the rise of mankind, the earth entered an unprecedented era of mass extinction, which is unfair to those extinct creatures, the evolution of individuals in society is very similar to the evolution of human civilization on earth, and it is really difficult to talk about right and wrong. All tragedies and regrets can only blame God for not being a perfectionist.

In the night of Egypt, Schiller talked eloquently. He said a lot, including American society, orderly society and jungleism, community atmosphere, personal development and the balance of social development. Finally, it fell on the profession of killer.

"You can't have your profession profit through illegal crimes, and at the same time, you must enjoy the benefits brought by social rules, and the love of those who live in the rules. This is not feasible."

Deathstroke was speechless. He chose to form a family and leave his children in the society of ordinary people, hoping that this society could protect his children. But in fact, what he did was destroying this society.

Deathstroke doesn't just kill rich people. Although upper-class people also have competitive relationships, many times, they also have intricate connections. They have business cooperation and can profit from each other, often not doing things too absolutely; they prefer to point their butcher knives at lower-class people at the same time. Many jobs Deathstroke received were to solve some people who had been used up and had nowhere to put them.

Usually he likes this kind of job very much, because the other party basically has no power to fight back. What is more troublesome is the kind of person who wants to "kill upward", the money given is not so much, and the difficulty is still great. Except for the early days of making a name for himself, Deathstroke hasn't taken such a job for a long time.

Even within the social rules, the means of upper-class people pressing downward are enough, and they still use means outside the rules, which is undoubtedly not giving people at the bottom a way to live. This is very harmful to society. Deathstroke knows this clearly, because he has also killed many "resisters"—this will make that country and region fall into a deeper abyss, without exception, always like this.

"I know I am very evil," Deathstroke said, "But I found that I seem to be even more evil than I thought."

"People always repent only when they are harmed themselves," Schiller said, "You have this feeling because you found that your family is also a victim, and you cannot protect them."

"I can," Deathstroke said coldly, "I will not have children anymore. And Joseph has grown up, he can protect his mother. They can live very well there."

"Originally it should be," Schiller lowered his eyelids and laughed, "If you didn't run into me, and followed my plan, and called him over."

Deathstroke turned to look at him, slammed on the brakes. Schiller thought he was going to say something, but Deathstroke opened the door and got out of the car, then said: "We are here."

Cairo is already under martial law at this time, and the car cannot be driven in. They stopped at the first checkpoint outside, and then through bribing the locals on the other side, took another road to drill in.

The atmosphere in the city is unusual, and you can faintly smell a burnt smell. It wasn't until they reached the vicinity of the airport that they knew that the gang of desperate armed elements burned a building at the airport. Fortunately, there were no casualties, just two of their own people were choked into the hospital and are now being tried. But how long it will take to lift this state of emergency is unknown.

"Where are you going to find it?" Deathstroke asked.

"I can't do psychoanalysis on murals. So we still have to find Haivin—to be precise, find someone who is very important to Haivin, used to exchange murals with him."

"Then did you find it?" Deathstroke asked.

"Can't find it like this." Schiller took out the old pistol he got from the enemy and aimed the muzzle directly at his palm. "Bang!"

Deathstroke gasped.

"That's about it."