Figure 1 depicts a number of these forces, and suggests the ways in which the Individualistic Ethic could not win for losing.

[F]or to ſerue brauely, is to come halting off, you know to come off the breach, with his pike bent brauely, and to ſurgerie brauely, to venture vpon the chargde chambers brauely. Falstaff asserts that he is potent using military imagery, by suggesting that after a man has engaged in sexual intercourse and ejaculated (served bravely), his penis (pike) will become flaccid (come halting off, bent bravely).

There has been a kind of Weimarization of the American working class, and there's a terrible instability in the middle class.

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