Let’s talk curses.  In a way, we’re all cursed, right at birth.  We’re cursed by the culture we’re born into.  That culture begins, of course, with the family surrounding us.  Then there’s the society our family’s immersed in, which may be variable as the years pass, but not too variable in the grand scheme of things.  From our embracing society, we move outward to our general culture and its myriad belief systems.  

We’re raised within all of this; educated ear...