The truth of equality is a hard one to swallow and digest. The Germans took the bitter pill in 1949, having no choice but to face the truth: “Human dignity shall be inviolable”—the dignity of ALL human beings without exception—this is the foundation of the German constitution. However, the victors failed to apply the same high standar…
The truth of equality is a hard one to swallow and digest. The Germans took the bitter pill in 1949, having no choice but to face the truth: “Human dignity shall be inviolable”—the dignity of ALL human beings without exception—this is the foundation of the German constitution. However, the victors failed to apply the same high standard to themselves.
A truth hard for oppressors and their heirs whose collective self-image is wedded to delusions of superiority, while stirring uneasily in the darkest shadows of their unconscious lurk phantoms of guilt and shame which, when they come to light, often take the form of yet more violent aggression projected against the usual victims who, by their mere presence, remind the would-be masters of a heritage of guilt.
Hard for the oppressed, heavily conditioned by all the filth, the shape-shifting evil, the fear and hatred endlessly projected against them. Often it will feel safer for these victims to play the vile parts reserved for them by their self-appointed “betters”. Under the circumstances, is it surprising that the 2016 Republican line-up of presidential candidates should have looked like a page out of a psychiatric manual showing specimens of narcissistic perversion? A page into which the winner, with his in-your-face narcissism and imposition of “superiority” didn’t even fit.
There’s no space left for the oppressed, no time. They breathe the same air, but—as we have seen—on sufferance. Although the Declaration of Independence states that they too “are created equal” the oppressors arrogate unto themselves a monopoly right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
Becky, you speak as one who understands education, the need to make students feel they are even better than they really are, freeing space so that they may rise to the occasion. What the oppressor understandably fears is blowback, that when victims are freed from all that has long weighed them down, they too may indulge in delusions of superiority. Hence the all-important role of education, including cradle-to-grave civic education. Hence the resistance of those privileged beings whose mindset of poverty assumes there is not enough liberty and happiness to go round…
The Germans did have a choice in 1949. They are to be commended for the one they made. Other countries who had been conquered into the Nazi orbit - Austria and Poland come to mind - did not face the truth.
The truth of equality is a hard one to swallow and digest. The Germans took the bitter pill in 1949, having no choice but to face the truth: “Human dignity shall be inviolable”—the dignity of ALL human beings without exception—this is the foundation of the German constitution. However, the victors failed to apply the same high standard to themselves.
A truth hard for oppressors and their heirs whose collective self-image is wedded to delusions of superiority, while stirring uneasily in the darkest shadows of their unconscious lurk phantoms of guilt and shame which, when they come to light, often take the form of yet more violent aggression projected against the usual victims who, by their mere presence, remind the would-be masters of a heritage of guilt.
Hard for the oppressed, heavily conditioned by all the filth, the shape-shifting evil, the fear and hatred endlessly projected against them. Often it will feel safer for these victims to play the vile parts reserved for them by their self-appointed “betters”. Under the circumstances, is it surprising that the 2016 Republican line-up of presidential candidates should have looked like a page out of a psychiatric manual showing specimens of narcissistic perversion? A page into which the winner, with his in-your-face narcissism and imposition of “superiority” didn’t even fit.
There’s no space left for the oppressed, no time. They breathe the same air, but—as we have seen—on sufferance. Although the Declaration of Independence states that they too “are created equal” the oppressors arrogate unto themselves a monopoly right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
Becky, you speak as one who understands education, the need to make students feel they are even better than they really are, freeing space so that they may rise to the occasion. What the oppressor understandably fears is blowback, that when victims are freed from all that has long weighed them down, they too may indulge in delusions of superiority. Hence the all-important role of education, including cradle-to-grave civic education. Hence the resistance of those privileged beings whose mindset of poverty assumes there is not enough liberty and happiness to go round…
The Germans did have a choice in 1949. They are to be commended for the one they made. Other countries who had been conquered into the Nazi orbit - Austria and Poland come to mind - did not face the truth.