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In Reply to: Re: It's called Social Darwinism. Get used to it. posted by Selfish Systemite on September 06, 2007 at 09:46:15:
According your logic, we should hope people leave the cult, then make it as hard as possible for them the live productive lives in society after they leave. It is my thought that facilitating & not making it harder for SGAs & FGAs would be more constructive to actually righting wrongs & doing things right this time around & not just venting anger for the purpose of feeling the rush that it gives us.
I am a sucessful business person by the way, & am fortunate to have probably done better for my wife & I than many SGAs who have really struggled entering the job market carving out a life for themselves. But I believe that we as "generation X" are writing history, & now being a parent myself realize that living a life of vengance is not going to solve as much or even do as much REAL damage towards dismantling the cult as being level headed individuals who stand up & say "We got the shaft, but now we're better than that!".
History repeats itself over & over when it comes to excess responses to travesties of justice. Take the French Revolution for example, noble cause in itself & got rid of some tyranical monarchs, but most of the stories are about the injustice committed afterwards by the "mob mentallity" that killing everyone who had even a remote affiliation with those responsible was somehow going to make it all right. In a way it's human nature.
But putting our thumb on the scale when it comes to "punishing" FGAs for stuff 10, 15, 20, or 25 years ago in my opinion is a waste of breath unless we are going somewhere with it. I feel like we should say "This is what F---ing happened to us, but it's up to us to break the cycle so that this trash doesn't keep spilling down to our kids.
I believe our focus in the spirit of truly "Moving on" should be breaking the curse & not trying to keep past skeletons on life support!
