"real" what?
they've been gas-bags as far back as I can
remember,
and
I remember "The Great Society",
the DC riots p MLK, Jr's assasination,
my friends' pussy-whipped Dads
who worked for 3 letter agencies.
Nobody being very smart,
or EVEN INTERESTED in actual
PROBLEM-SOLVING.

It was TOXIC as far back as the 1960s.
"The geographical cure" actually DID work wonders in my case.
Menial jobs, time to puzzle things out,
+ a state university in the Rockies,
paired w/ a "Hippie Church" that befriended me,
meeting in a city park's bandshell, YEAR-ROUND
➡️me THINGS DC is❌willing to HONOR.

Bureaucracies INSIST on staying
EVER the unweaned INFANT,
eyes SHUT to the needs of THEIR PROVIDER, DEMANDING their "immediate gratification"
ALWAYS be more REAL
than peasants.