Social Activism
Doesn't the public absolutely thrill to the spectacle of authority derided, punctured, denied and flouted? There just appears to be something about some segments of society, which would of course, include the rejectionist youth, already fatigued with the idea of a bureaucracy of global partnership in control of the world's wealth, national interactions, trade and currency supply.
What most appeals to the middle-class youth demographic, tipping their brains into various aspects of social-responsibility-enhanced educational opportunities, is the need to display their rejection of norms, and their embrace of equality as defined by draining funding and opportunities from an upper strata of society and re-distributing it in a downward spiral of generous inclination.
As though that would, in effect, prove that their idealism is the response to the world's ills. As though by filtering down to the lower middle class and the poverty stricken the avails of profits taken by a socialist-type government edict through heavily taxing the wealthy, the world would become magically balanced.
Depriving those within a population of the urge to become enterprisingly successful, in attaining a height of prosperity through hard work, would result in a dispiriting lack of interest in self-aspiration. And those to whom funding is doled out for the purpose of achieving societal balance would have no reason to make an effort on their own behalf.
Look no further than those countries of the world for whom the social-political compact exemplified by communism have failed to product equality for their populations, either of social or economic or political standing. Even if the theory behind the communist ideal made sense on an abstract scale, those seeking to practise the reality come face to face with the reality that human beings are discrete animals with their own individual emotions and needs.
The concept of a social-political construct that would benefit all of its organisms equally, irrespective of the work and time and skill-investment of each and every member of that society, is one that resembles the quintessential mechanistic-equal society, that of ants or of bees. But even there, in those colonies, there is no complete equality, since there are strata of achievement and of command. True altruism is simply not to be found in nature's creatures.
Denied, in fact, since Nature has imbued all of her living organisms with the selfish concern of self-perpetuation, the survival imperative, which instructs those creatures to seek the initiative by which they will be individually, and singly, able to survive, if not themselves, then their offspring; their genetic code will continue to live. Nature's original plan for the survival of the fittest; those that are successful in altering themselves to best suit their environment.
In any event, those without experience of the world, who believe, because of their youth and their idealism, and their brief intellectual forays into ideological concepts readily embraced, surrender readily to the easy fix. And the euphoric belief that all will be well once the greed of corporate interests and global finances have been drained of the wealth that has accrued to them, and equally distributed to those within society disinterested or incapable of, or unwilling to make themselves responsible for their own well being.
The reality that there will always be a strata of society for whom an individual fate has decreed they will remain on the lower edge of economic struggle, and a larger middle bulge of those who become capable of fending for themselves and their families, and a smaller yet demographic of those whom fortune, or their own ambitions and opportunities have enabled to become wealthy will not be altered by the dreams of juvenile minds.
But the club of the righteous is an expansive one and their isolation of those who are to blame for the ills of the world, and their battle to reveal the world's unjust and unfair human condition becomes their passion. An idealistic world view from people for whom the answers are simple, but the solutions anything but.
And these are the people who form groups of like-minded activists whose function is to decry the condition of the impoverished the overlooked, the welfare recipients, the indigent populations of the capitalist world, that great harrowed underbelly of society whom society in fact, does its best to look after, if only from a spirit of ill conscience.
What most appeals to the middle-class youth demographic, tipping their brains into various aspects of social-responsibility-enhanced educational opportunities, is the need to display their rejection of norms, and their embrace of equality as defined by draining funding and opportunities from an upper strata of society and re-distributing it in a downward spiral of generous inclination.
As though that would, in effect, prove that their idealism is the response to the world's ills. As though by filtering down to the lower middle class and the poverty stricken the avails of profits taken by a socialist-type government edict through heavily taxing the wealthy, the world would become magically balanced.
Depriving those within a population of the urge to become enterprisingly successful, in attaining a height of prosperity through hard work, would result in a dispiriting lack of interest in self-aspiration. And those to whom funding is doled out for the purpose of achieving societal balance would have no reason to make an effort on their own behalf.
Look no further than those countries of the world for whom the social-political compact exemplified by communism have failed to product equality for their populations, either of social or economic or political standing. Even if the theory behind the communist ideal made sense on an abstract scale, those seeking to practise the reality come face to face with the reality that human beings are discrete animals with their own individual emotions and needs.
The concept of a social-political construct that would benefit all of its organisms equally, irrespective of the work and time and skill-investment of each and every member of that society, is one that resembles the quintessential mechanistic-equal society, that of ants or of bees. But even there, in those colonies, there is no complete equality, since there are strata of achievement and of command. True altruism is simply not to be found in nature's creatures.
Denied, in fact, since Nature has imbued all of her living organisms with the selfish concern of self-perpetuation, the survival imperative, which instructs those creatures to seek the initiative by which they will be individually, and singly, able to survive, if not themselves, then their offspring; their genetic code will continue to live. Nature's original plan for the survival of the fittest; those that are successful in altering themselves to best suit their environment.
In any event, those without experience of the world, who believe, because of their youth and their idealism, and their brief intellectual forays into ideological concepts readily embraced, surrender readily to the easy fix. And the euphoric belief that all will be well once the greed of corporate interests and global finances have been drained of the wealth that has accrued to them, and equally distributed to those within society disinterested or incapable of, or unwilling to make themselves responsible for their own well being.
The reality that there will always be a strata of society for whom an individual fate has decreed they will remain on the lower edge of economic struggle, and a larger middle bulge of those who become capable of fending for themselves and their families, and a smaller yet demographic of those whom fortune, or their own ambitions and opportunities have enabled to become wealthy will not be altered by the dreams of juvenile minds.
But the club of the righteous is an expansive one and their isolation of those who are to blame for the ills of the world, and their battle to reveal the world's unjust and unfair human condition becomes their passion. An idealistic world view from people for whom the answers are simple, but the solutions anything but.
And these are the people who form groups of like-minded activists whose function is to decry the condition of the impoverished the overlooked, the welfare recipients, the indigent populations of the capitalist world, that great harrowed underbelly of society whom society in fact, does its best to look after, if only from a spirit of ill conscience.
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