I know the reason for you asking now, makes much more sense to me. My father was born in 1929, grew up poor, went and served in the USMC in Korea. He used his GI bill money to go to Elon College and get a business degree. He worked in Textiles as a supervisor til he retired. I am 40 and have never had the work ethic he think I should, he has referred to me as "white trash" more than once when we disagree.
Our stories are poles apart,
( an appropriate Floyd tune IMO)
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
― Edward R. Murrow
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them" - Ray Bradbury