A few years ago in a critique of American post-modernity I argued that the sense of having or holding a professional trade for self-actualization reasons and purposes is gone and people would just as soon quit teaching, firefighting, policing and even doctoring if they could make enough money flipping houses or in some other get rich quick scheme you see on late night television infomercials. In America we assume about each other with straight faces that if I won the lotto, I’d not only quit my current job but damn near quit my current life and live the stereotypical life…

Indeed it is motivating when a disembodied head you’re looking at on a screen says ‘JoeJones1234′ keep it up you’re doing great’! Yet I ask all my readers who’ve ever walked, ran and cycled in residential neighborhoods was that more motivating than when you saw a Rottweiler the size of a small horse break full speed for you at 25-50 paces. Go Pelaton Team Go! No, you wish your Pelaton team was there so they could prove the old adage created by African Wildebeasts. It says, ‘when the lion is chasing you, you don’t have to be the fastest Wildebeast…