[05:35.09]He can read and write
[05:37.86]His wages are far better than anything his ancestors had in Ireland.
[05:44.42]Next Kevin Hanley1990 dreams that he is Kevin Hanley 1945,
[05:52.15]his own grandfather
[05:54.71]fighting on Iwo Jima against a most determined foe,the Japanese army.
[06:01.50]He is always hot,always hungry,always scared
[06:08.76]One night in a foxhole,he tells a friend why he is there:
[06:14.93]"So my son and his son can live in peace and security
[06:20.70]When I get back,I'll work hard and send my boy to college
[06:27.02]so he can live by his brains instead of his back."
[06:31.49]Then Kevin Hanley1990 is his own father,Kevin Hanley1966,
[06:40.24]who studies all the time
[06:43.19]so he can get into college and law school.He lives in a fine house
[06:51.34]He has niever seen anything but peace and plenty.
[06:57.06]He tells his girl friend that when he has a son
[07:02.03]he won't make him study all the time,as his father makes him.
[07:08.66]At that point,Kevin Hanley1990 wakes up,shaken by his dream
[07:16.13]He is relieved to be away from Ireland and the steel mill and Iwo Jima.
[07:24.00]He goes back to sleep.
[07:26.84]When he dreams again,he is his own son,Kevin Hanley 2020.
[07:35.02]There is gunfire all day and all night
[07:39.28]His whole generation forgot why there even was law,so there is none
[07:47.61]People pay no attention to politics,
[07:52.23]and government offers no services to the working class.
[07:56.68]Kevin 2020's father,who is of course Kevin 1990 himself,
[08:04.59]works as a cleaner in a factory owned by the Japanese
[08:08.95]Kevin2020 is a porter in a hotel for wealthy Europeans and Asians.
[08:16.82]Public education stops at the sixth grade
[08:21.49]Americans have long since stopped demanding good education for their chirlden
[08:28.99]The last person Kevin1990 sees in his dream is his own grandson.
[08:36.72]Kevia2050 has no useful skills
[08:41.79]Machines built in Japan do all the complex work,
[08:47.22]and there is little manual work to be done.
[08:51.17]Without education,without discipline,he cannot earn an adequate living wage.
[09:00.73]He lives in a slum where there is no heat
[09:04.70]no plumbing,no privacy and survives by searching through trash piles.
[09:12.43]In a word,he lives much as Kevin Hanley1835 did in Ireland.
[09:20.37]But one day,Kevin Hanley 2050 is befriended
[09:29.12]by a visiting Japanese anthropologist studying the decline of America.
[09:36.28]The man explains to Kevin that when a man has no money,
[09:42.76]education can supply the human capital necessary to start to acquire financial capital
[09:50.70]Hard work,education,saving and discipline can do anything.
[09:58.43]This is how we rose from the ashes after you defeated us in a war about a hundred years ago
[10:06.24]"America beat Japan in war?"asks Kevin 2050.He is astonished
[10:15.49]It seems as impossible as Brazil defeating the United States would sound in1990
[10:25.44]Kevin 2050 swears that if he ever has children,
[10:31.37]he will make sure they work and study and learn and discipline themselves.
[10:37.90]To be able to make a living by one's mind instead of by stealing,"he says.
[10:45.74]"That would be a miracle."
[10:48.51]When Kevin 1990 wakes up,next to him is his copy of The Wealth of Nations
[10:57.52]He opens it and the first sentence to catch his eye is this:
[11:04.00]"A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man is,if possible
[11:11.65]more contemptible than even a coward."
[11:15.62]Kevin's father walks in."All right,son,"he says.
[11:21.19]"Let's go look at those headphones."
[11:24.35]"Sorry,Pop,"Kevin1990 says."I have to study."
[11:30.72]fable/   teenager/  run out of/  file
[11:38.98]folder/   drugstore/   handful/  counter
[11:46.55]tax/   in amazement/   modestly/   upset
[11:55.17]igorant/   igorance/  senior/   slice
[12:02.75]ability/   nonexistent/   chill/   indifference
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