Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day.

Novel.

For American readers who sometimes get frustrated with their politics, indignities, and injustices that we find in America, they should read Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day.

The Remains is a sad and depressing book whose main theme is a satire about the British class system.

That Stevenson─the pathetic exemplar of the class of British butlers─chooses duty over filial obligation when his father dies reveals the deep psychological damage that has been inflicted on an entire class of servants.

Even worse is Stevenson's understanding of the word dignity; for him dignity is having shallow knowledge, good diction, and be opinionless.

One cannot help but be awed at the wisdom of our founding fathers that banned nobility titles and class distinctions in our Constitution.

Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, John Adams, et all, they all agree that queens, kings, princes, counts, viscounts, dukes, duchesses, barons, lords, and other nobility titles shoud not be imported into America. They saw how pernicious such caste system can be on the human race.

Thus, in our country, in America, we all have a go at owning assets and wealth, and if one of your assets is land--then you can be a landowner, too!

We are all created equal--in America.