Since Ms Good's murder, I've been thinking a bit about the immigrant derangement syndrome in this country.

[Lucky Luciano]

7. Agreed - communication lines are quite a bit faster now! Things happen faster for sure!

There were a lot of good nuggets there which is why I felt compelled to post this (in spite of the AI haters who are not completely wrong):

1. “Bootstraps” Was Never a Universal Principle

The “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” rhetoric was never intended as a general rule applied evenly across society. In practice, it functioned as a boundary-policing slogan: Applied downward (to stigmatized out-groups), Suspended inward (for one’s own community), Ignored upward (for elites)

So when:
Black Americans are told to self-improve → it is moral instruction
Rural whites fail to adapt → it becomes evidence of external betrayal

This is not hypocrisy in the casual sense; it is in-group moral exemption. Moral rules are used to rank people, not to discipline the self.
That is why “take your own advice” rarely lands. The advice was never meant to be symmetric.