by the Left Coast Rebel
Having finished most of blogging and real work for today, I began my usual search for posts and topics that I want to check in on. My first stop was the Green Room over at Hot Air, a piece by Stacy McCain - "So You Think You're a 'Victim,' Huh?
The theme of RSM's piece being the fact that our society has neutered, watered/dumbed down the very notion of victimhood thereby disregarding the actual victims in life.
He points to supposed NFL players 'victimized' by Rush Limbaugh, among others. He puts up a 3 point list on how the media/liberal revolving door of fake-victimhood damages our society. He points to the young girl that was abused and victimized for 18 years.....
Now that is victimhood.
It's a great piece but after reading it, I stumbled onto something else. Have you ever written a post, (if you are a blogger), only to step back, receive ample comments on said piece and then put out a comment to readers that you feel betters the actual post? Well I sure have. On this theme, Stacy responds to a reader of his piece that brings up a question - 'what happens when everyone is a victim?'.....
Stacy unleashes, (in a good-response way, not an attack), as if the torrent of thought that had been brimming within his mind while writing the actual Hot Air piece, burst through the dam of thought. Listen to this, in response to the victim question -
If you’ve read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, you remember she talked about this. Under the socialist principle — “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” — ability is punished and need rewarded.
Your ability to earn your own living becomes a liability, as you are singled out for higher taxes and hindered by regulations designed to take away your hard-earned advantages and provide unearned advantages to the needy, who get subsidized with the money forcibly taken away from you.
Ergo, needs multiply, while ability becomes scarce. It takes a genuinely perverse conception of “social justice” to imagine that such a result is beneficial to anyone. But then you realize that “benefits” for the needy are not really the object of socialism. Rather, the socialist is motivated by a hateful and envious spirit, and aims to destroy that which others create, simply because the socialist resents their possession of the creative ability he lacks.
The socialist is never a person of genuine ability. His talent is for criticism, inspiring others to emulate his own small and resentful spirit. Think about this: For what talent or ability was Ted Kennedy famous? What special skill does Nancy Pelosi possess? What is Jesse Jackson’s great accomplishment?
Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
Read the rest of his comment and his piece, (which is better?)
here.
I've talked abou that before, but not as eloquent. Stacy is a very talented and skilled writer. I'd comment at hot air, but my wordpress login doesn't work. Anyway, great post.
ReplyDeleteYou have to be registered at hotair to make comments. Oh well, they closed registration. I made my comments here anyway.
ReplyDelete@ Rightguy - Stacy is in a class of it's own, I think that I am a decent writer until I run across stuff like his and it's....well, it's humbling. Thanks for the comments.
ReplyDelete@ Rightguy - Also, it's not as much for that he is incredibly skilled, (which he is), it is that he 'gets it' as well.
ReplyDeleteStacy is also in that element, living in the DC area, having worked at the Times. Me, I am a network engineer at heart and like Scotty, I like to get things done efficiently and quickly and yes, RSM is in a very small class. I'd love to hear and see him in person, he must be a riot.
ReplyDeleteSince the NFL has offended me with their bigotry, I think it's time we apply Afirmative Action laws on them. After all, they have way too many African Americans playing. We need more Asians and Latinos. While we're at, it's get some chinese and Filipinos and force at least half of the Afriacn Americans out of the NFL and replace them with the above list. Stupid race baiters. As much as I love football, I don't think I'll look at the sport the same way again since I know that the league is racist agianst most of their fans.
ReplyDeleteNail on the head.
ReplyDeleteI have debated this with liberals. The problem, often, with some of the peon liberals is they do not believe the process is quick. They think, at some point, they can moderate it. They do not understand that it is more like a flood than a trickling stream, or they won't face that reality.
Once it, socialism or communism, becomes manifest, it cannot be stopped, regulated, or such. Like an AI that suddenly becomes self aware, there is no going back. Both will do whatever it takes to survive. Then, truly, we all will be victims. I would say, in large part, we already are.
I choose not to be a victim, however. Now to get others on board. We might be living outside of the system. But others, rightly or wrongly, have been doing that for a long time. From bikers to monks to nuns to more isolated and insular Christians. Though there is nothing preventing us, too, from working on that system... in a thousand ways. From civil to militant, from prayer to black markets, we will do what we can and must.
@ Doom - I agree, we live in dark times, the shocking thing is that many among us don't even see it.
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