Have you noticed it too? Does it also annoy you? I am asking about this weird resigned, pacified state of contentment that time and time again I come across whenever there is a “political” discussion going on.
It goes like this: there is usually one party complaining about something the government is doing or not doing, and how it negatively affects us. Then the other party swiftly jumps in to remind everyone that we should all be thankful that things are not worse – and that they could be VERY MUCH worse. At this point they might even give examples from here, or other places, where there was strife, war, genocide, etc.
In effect, the message being passed is that we should not complain. We should be happy, thankful and relieved that things are not as bad as they could be.
You want examples? Sure. I’ll give you just one though – and leave coming up with others as an exercise for yourself. A near perfect example is the mantra of “accept and move on” that is usually all over TV, radio, and the Internet right after a presidential election in this country.
At this point I am going to ask you to go and read this article whose title can be summarized as Today’s Slave Mentality.
Now that you have read the article, how do you feel about that? Isn’t it curious that most slaves were resigned to their fate, and accepted it without much fuss? And that in extreme cases they even fought to defend their masters?
If we can call this weird phenomenon the spirit of slavery. Then my assertion today is that most of our modern day countrymen at all levels are deeply affected and infected by this spirit. We do not want to rock the boat and we are happy to let our ruling class to continue raping our country because we have somehow come to believe that:
- We cannot do anything about it anyway
- We should actually thank God and our lucky stars that things are as good as they are – we have “peace” and food and such. You know? (As an aside I think it is interesting to ask whether we actually have these things at all).