[Peace-discuss] [Discuss] Fw: What hath got rot?

[Bob Illyes]

Melodye writes:

"It never ceases to amaze me how some of the biggest critics (on every 
subject) coming out of the shadows have done---- what?"

Precisely, Melodye.

Some pretext is generally behind this lack of accomplishment. A "Christian" 
pretext is that because of Original Sin it is not possible for a person to 
do good. A "Marxist" pretext is that the middle class will always prevent 
political progress, which isn't possible because the middle class is not 
yet destroyed. Market Fundamentalism supplies its own unsubstantiated 
theology. But don't be fooled. These are just excuses to hold in contempt 
those who do their part to leave the world better rather than worse. These 
critics get off on contempt. They attempt to set up abusive relationships 
with those who would do good.

On a slightly different subject, I confess I have never seen anything quite 
so revolting as the Social Darwinian arguments coming from opponents of the 
efforts of our first black President and our first woman Speaker. (Their 
race and gender have nothing to do with this, right?) In the Gilded Age, it 
was seriously proposed that charity was vice, because it lessened the 
pressure on those on the bottom to change their evil ways. And now the new 
Gilded Age has arrived, with the same recycled pseudo-scientific nonsense, 
that we all already get what we deserve.....

Bob




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