"One method of simplifying social problems is to see them as resulting from countless individual failures of personal character. According to this view, people are jobless because they're lazy, they're homeless because they lack forehandedness, they're addicted because they have no moral discipline" (351).This is the issue with individualism--one of the main ideologies holding together classism. As other writers have pointed out (as I have discussed in previous blog posts), individualism is the distraction from systematic issues that are the root cause to poverty, oppression, and in this particular case--drug abuse. With this view out of the way, we can examine the systems beneath that benefit those who control them, and hurt those it takes advantage of. It makes no logical sense for groups of people to simultaneously be "too lazy" or to have "no moral discipline"--there is always a root cause to joblessness and homelessness.
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