Friday, April 25, 2014

The cowardly arrogance of selfishness (#1911)

I got mine so to hell to with the rest of you! An all too often conservative Republican sentiment. If you don't have yours then you are either lazy or physically and or mentally lacking the necessary willpower. Either way you are less than. As if in Republican's minds we all have the same shot at the same results. The only sameness of the same results most of us have is that we will fail at whatever we truly hope to accomplish. Life is like a game of cards, and the deck has been stacked against most of us. The likelihood of one of us underprivileged getting a Royal Flush and winning some big hand is not much different that one of us hitting the big jackpot in the lottery. One in several tens of millions. Whereas privilege and advantage gives extra cards to those who are already connected. So goes though the argument by the Republicans though that if we do or don't succeed financially in life we get what we deserve. Advantages and privileges have been sewn into the fabric of our society through traditions and customs that most always seem to benefit those who already have a leg up in life. With the Republicans so focused on protecting inherent advantages and privileges that bolster them from having to start out life from an equal starting point as everyone else, the true cost to them of their limited success is inversely measured by the onerous difficulty they place on those who fail. Not a bad deal when you can gain without having to gamble much of a loss. It seems to work well within capitalistic circles, but in the the moral realm it sucks and is a blight on equality. Thus the cowardly arrogance of selfishness. The honor and dignity by which one lives their life is directly reflected in the amount of respect one is afforded throughout. If we cannot find our true worth by beginning as all begin then we are fools who are afraid of life instead of wondered by it.

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