Be Offended

From everything I can see, and I’ve been looking, there is no national American pastime other than treason and betrayal with wokeism as its conspirator. On every front, in every institution, whether government or private, formal or informal, fiscal, political, medical, legal, educational, recreational, on and on. There isn’t even a sport, something that seems contained within its own world, isolated, impervious to the forces around it, that can make its own rules, and can focus solely on making a competitive match fair, that has not embraced a political philosophy instead. They’ve been convinced by those with diabolical intent that they need to use their sport, their lives and livelihoods, to punish their fans, berate them, lecture to them until they willingly accept the alternative reality of wokeism.

I wish I had been able to see it more clearly back then, but when I first encountered the attitude of taking something seemingly solid in its purpose and corrupting it with other issues, I knew in my soul that it was wrong, that it would have long-term, devastating effects, but I couldn’t quite figure out how. Take school grades, for instance, where the suggestion had been put forward that grades should be given on a more rounded understanding of the student’s situation rather than just cold marks on paper, absolute right and wrong answers.

Poverty could impact a student’s ability to study and with that, their ability to score well on tests and projects, affecting their grades. That didn’t seem out of the question, at the time. I could recognize that my world, one where the home was peaceful (whatever disagreements my parents had, they were not aired in front of us); where there was time, after chores, to sit down at the kitchen table, or in our rooms (we each had our own) and study. If we didn’t know the answer to something, or were stumped by what some of the information meant, we could go to our parents and get a clarification, not the answers, mind you, just a better understanding of the problem. We had clean clothes, soft beds, plenty of food and, above all, accountability. If we got a bad grade, there was some price to pay for it, getting grounded, a double helping of chores, etc.

When you put that environment up against a home where there’s probably a single mother who’s stressed, overworked, tired and/or depressed, just trying to make it all work without the time or attention to give to any single child for more than a few minutes. Where there’s two parents, they might be at each others throats, perhaps even domestic violence enters into it. It’s never peaceful, even when it’s quiet. No one seems to have answers even if one is brave enough to approach them for fear of being called stupid and annoying. Time after time, failing grades gets no response, so what incentive is there to get good grades? Especially where, through diligence and ignoring all of the other distractions, one achieves an “A” and showing the grade, the pride that goes with it, is ridiculed and belittled. Pile on top of that going to bed hungry, sleeping with a few brothers and/or sisters, who kick and steal the covers, where one is woken up several times during the night by either a rude knee to the back, or screaming and drunken antics from one’s parents and it’s not the same. It’s not a level playing field.

The danger and the opening to all of the destructive forces in our society today, the Pandora’s Box, stems from either the inability to resist the temptation to solve this inequality by institutional means, or the diabolical intent to use this inequality to destroy society.

Institutionally, this inequality is addressed through two possible avenues, through race or economics. Both assume that this inequality is inherent to one race or another, one economic status or another. When they assume a white child enjoys the benefits of the first environment and the minority child suffers the second environment, they go beyond their boundaries and are as likely to further punish a white child with another layer of debility on top of the second environment with benefitting a minority child, with whom he must compete for time and attention in school, who already enjoys the first environment.

When this inequality is addressed by those with diabolical intent, inequality is never meant to be overcome, but rather used as a means of dividing society, either on a racial or an economic basis, of creating an antagonistic relationship between race and/or class, ensuring that one race or class is given everything that is not earned and the other is denied the opportunity to earn it, no matter how hard they work or how well they do.

There’s political power in that. There’s dedicated warriors for one’s cause when that sense of injustice can be fostered in a great many and a sense of guilt can be fostered in the rest. We have seen it. That is wokeism.

While the well-meaning may not understand what they’re doing, because they’re childlike in their motivations and expectations, those with diabolical intent do know what they’re doing. The exchange is typically this: the well-meaning observe some social ill, homelessness perhaps, and approach someone in power, a community organizer, like our former president. The well-meaning express their desire to help the homeless and those with diabolical intent suggest changing the law to allow urinating and defecating in public, because the homeless have nowhere to do these things. The well-meaning don’t see how that really helps, why not just fund porta-potties or something? That might solve the problem for the homeless, but it does nothing for the community organizer, who needs a cause, a law to pass, political pressure to bring to bear, to humiliate and denigrate those in power. Defecating in public serves a couple of different purposes for the community organizer, it forces all of those evil, white racists to live in a literal cesspool rather than the cozy, safe and beautiful city they helped to build and it provides him a platform from which to build his career while looking down on them as evil scum because they don’t want to watch the homeless crap on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant.

The well-meaning merely supply those with evil intent a sense of the battlefield, where weaknesses can be found and the issues to be exploited to gain power and control.

It’s our responsibility to deny them that power and control and could well do so, but those engaged in the battle on the front lines are more likely to be the well-meaning, who are easily coopted by those with diabolical intent. They’re sold on the idea that anyone who does not want to corrupt society to correct the inequalities of life are truly evil, racist and deserving of punishment.

This goes on all over America, it’s part of our culture now. It has replaced hard work, merit, individual achievement and recognition. The bureaucrats have multiplied and gone out into every aspect of American life, where they used to be unseen and unconsidered. Now, there’s some commission, some board, some agency that needs to be consulted before anything can be achieved. The bureaucrats who are everywhere, like rats, harass hardworking successful industries and businesses, schools and curriculums with regulations and limitations, restraining them from doing too well, or being too successful and these bureaucrats feel completely justified in putting them out of business, or forcing change in the curriculum based on race or economics. Why? Because of what they learned from those with diabolical intent, that some races and people of a certain economic status have gained their inequality through privilege or corrupt and devious means and should be hamstrung or destroyed. It’s the bureaucrat’s duty to ensure this happens.

This is the American soup we’re all swimming in; a boiling stew of hatred, jealousy and perversion.

What none of these actors preying on society either unintentionally by the “well-meaning” or by those with diabolical intent understand, or care about, is the character that is built by overcoming this inequality by the individual. Where overcoming that inequality is a product of institutional preference, they’re acutely aware that others who were more deserving and better skilled were of the wrong color or had the wrong parents and that character development is lost and becomes guilt and can lead to all sorts of irrational and destructive behavior, perversions and corruptions.

The antidote is in individualism. When you strip away the racial or economic excuses, perhaps valid in a lot of cases, you’re forced to see the individual, their challenges and their needs, but also their talents and abilities. Solving one problem might come at the cost of losing something else of greater value. Institutions are not the place to make that determination. God can do a better job, and has. Solving inequality is removing the hand of God. It destroys all of the benefits of it that massively outweigh the negatives, but that take individual assessment to identify. This assessment cannot be done on a racial or economic basis, because it does not exist there, it exists only in the uniqueness of the individual.

There’s inequality in everything human, because every human being is an individual, no matter what group they are thrust into, what economic system they come from, what color they were when they were born. They’re unique and if allowed to pursue their uniqueness are capable of incredible feats of athleticism, intellectualism, artistry, composition and that propels the species forward, into new and dramatic evolutions of materials and energy sources only derived from unique vision and inspiration. It is not achieved by some bureaucrat deciding that power can only come from wind or solar and everyone else can die a cold and lonely death if they don’t comply.

For decades now, we’ve been hampered, mired in concerns of race and privilege, of inequality as a negative, of appealing to the worst of mankind rather than the best and this is where we have come as a society and as a world. We have been betrayed by those who sought power over every other human consideration; politics over service. The result, that most can see, is that we are not as strong as either Russia or China, that our military is lacking focus, our children are being indoctrinated instead of educated and can’t even do math; that in almost every metric, we’re no longer the leader of the world, but a distant third or worse.

One can only imagine the world that would have been created had all of the resources of the world been applied to supporting individual thinkers, creators and inventors rather than spent recklessly on communism and restriction. We can only imagine the world powered by exalting human uniqueness rather than forcing them all into the same mold. The world, especially America, has grown narrower and narrower in what it can consider, what it can discuss, what truths it can reveal, indeed what are the very elements of right and wrong. With it goes every other thing.

It’s as if every individual holds one piece of a giant puzzle. Each one is critical to creating the whole. The difference is that those with diabolical intent use those pieces to create the back of the puzzle and mankind is trying to build the glorious image on the front.

Americans were given that opportunity, that structure, and through it, amassed great economic, military and diplomatic strength; enough to help inspire and develop the rest of the world and what have we done with it? We’ve allowed those with diabolical intent to manipulate the well-meaning and capture our institutions, our government, our schools.

Taking them back requires a dedication, almost a religious fervor, to exalt and to bring overwhelming voice to the sanctity of inequality, of the individual, in ridiculing this idea of equality. No one truly wants equality, not really. What they want is to use inequality as leverage to gain superiority. This, too, is the obvious objective of wokeism.

Wokeism is a betrayal, an intentional betrayal of Americanism and it uses manufactured or magnified offense as a weapon. One person’s supposed offense becomes another person’s cross to bear. Never are the offenses of those in the wrong race or class considered. Is the word “racist” not offensive? Should it not be banned for the shame and pain it intends to inflict? Is it not hurtful and offensive? Fascist? Is that not also offensive? Are these word-attacks not intended to silence dissent, to eliminate individual thought and expression, reserving the speaking space for only those of one belief, one, singular viewpoint? Of course it is.

The best response was recently made by Matt Gaetz, when confronted over his ridicule of abortion supporters, which was brutal. He responded to this question: (paraphrased) Do you see how some of what you had to say could be considered offensive? He nodded that he did and said: BE OFFENDED.

My novels of freedom, and especially individuality, Rebel and Rogue about a young man, growing up trying to do the right thing. They are available on Amazon and our website 12 Round Productions, where you can also find access to our red-pill film Lies of Omission.