If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
It's All Too Much
Byte Me wrote in message .. . "Meldon Fens" wrote in : Personally I agree. I have experienced first-hand what you describe and the visible neuroses of a caged animal comes to mind. Perhaps I am simply jaded and cynical? More likely you're just human. If this is true, then there are many more who feel the same way. Where are they? I don't hear them? What are *their* concerns and why are none of these concerns begin addressed? What seems to make more sense to me these days (and I'm somewhat reluctant to describe) is that there is indeed a class system in the west much as is described in various Marxist doctrine. A simple analogy might be a group of people sitting at a table playing a board game. In the room are several mementos and wall hangings depicting numerous moral principles and beliefs similar to religious teachings. The rules are read to everyone and the game begins under the premise that each person is moral and honest. At the end of the game the winner declares the victory but unknown to the others, the winner cheated. A new generation takes their place at the table. The previous winner has instructed his/her offspring on the justification of cheating. Once again, while the others at the table remain honest, the cheater wins again. It is not in the interest of the cheaters to let anyone know they are cheating. In fact, much energy is spent convincing the others that there is no cheating taking place and that their continued morality will someday lead their to victory. In other words, religion or morality instead of being a basis for modern civilization it is simply a tool of oppression. So I continue to pay my child-support even though the amount does not comply with recognized guidelines. I pay child-support to a person who decided to raise my child on her own despite my objections. As a male, I had little choice but to spend my savings in an attempt to remain in the child's life and I continue to pay child-support. Don't get me wrong. It's not the support that hurts, its the inequity and the seemingly justified kidnapping and extortion that takes place that really troubles me. One begins to question why they should continue to be moral in a society which does not protect the rights of the individual. Slavery was once justified. Native people who were more or less moral were removed and displaced "for a greater good". The fact is this: the act was immoral and unjustified. We adopted a "do it now, apologize later" attitude which seems to be growing throughout society. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|