Do you feel alarmed at the state of the world? Have you considered taking active responsibility, not only for your own problems, but for other people’s problems? To steer the ship when every heading promises only disaster? If you haven’t the power to solve the problem, is it not better to BE the problem? Perhaps the current problems facing your civilization are without solution – that for all the self-satisfied feeling of virtuous defeat that your socially-acceptable morality dictates, that being, quote, a good person, in a society where good and evil are defined by the most corrupt, is already the source of your problems, and everyone else’s?
Are you willing to examine your values to the degree that doing the right thing would betray every position you’ve publicly declared? That only by designating yourself as the villain to be reviled by your community can you serve said community?
What if bullying was the virtuous act all along? What if it was the act of punching down that gave the least of us the strength to accomplish the bare minimum? By coddling the downtrodden, have you been peeling away the cocoon of their tribulation, and leaving their fledgling wings too weak and underdeveloped to ever take flight?
What right do you have to define who is and isn’t vulnerable, or underserved, or disadvantaged? Are you secure enough in your ethical framework to examine whether your pity and your mercy and your compassion are not themselves the means by which these groups or individuals are held in subjugation and inferiority? Do you feel rewarded by speaking of kindness, generosity, or understanding extended towards such certain individuals or groups? Is not the very fact that you are rewarded either internally, externally, or both, proof that you yourself have an incentive to see that they remain in their position of disadvantage? What really makes you better than them other than your magnanimity? Your generosity of spirit? Your full and sincere hope for a different world where they aren’t beneath you, inferior to you… but that is not this world, and how can you move this world toward that when the status quo of inequality already rewards you for your benevolence in your role of superiority?
What are the means and the metrics by which your civilization decides which attitudes are deserving of reward and which of punishment? Is it possible that the entities who designate you as a person of good will and virtue are the same entities who oppress your brothers and sisters? That by rewarding you for shaking your head in sadness at their plight that they enfeeble you and disincentivize you from any real effort to cure the imbalances you see in the world around you? Do you believe in the message disseminated by the masters of war when they tell you that virtue can only be found through peace? That if you kill your enemies, your enemies win? That YOU would be the evil one, if you were to feel their aristocratic windpipes collapse in your grip? To watch the blood drain from their pallid faces and watch the light go out in their lidless reptilian eyes?
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
– Freeman Tao
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