How Individual and Collective Responsibility Is Designed to Control People
We all see the scam
I've realized how politicians, teachers, influencers, and celebrities use individual and collective responsibility to control everyday people.
Let me give you an example.
Normally it's a shame when American athletes lose in the Olympics.
But if participants are OK with competing in a country accused of genocide against Uighur Muslims then I don't lose sleep for them.
After I watched the clip of US skier Mikaela Schiffrin biff it in her slalom competition, I left YouTube on autoplay while I did the dishes.
When I returned, I found the platform selected a figure skating event from the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang.
I'm not into skating, but I couldn't help but watch the remainder of Japanese gold-medalist Yuzuru Hanyu's impressive performance as I dried my hands.
Say what you will about the sport, but the skill and dedication that takes is beyond impressive.
And after Hanyu completed his dance, the crowd went wild.
Flowers flew from the stands as ecstatic Japanese faces lit up with pride as their national flags bobbed above their heads.
At that moment, there was no past or future. They only felt honored for their representative and country.
And as I watched him bow to his country folk, I wondered, do Japanese people criticize each other for their past as Americans do?
Do Japanese teenagers burn their flags and denounce their homeland because of Japanese atrocities in World War 2 against the Chinese? Do they even know about it?
What about Germans?
I don't know, but the American left guilts people with individual and collective responsibility for money and control.
Individual and Collective Responsibility
If the police caught me robbing a bank, we agree the local government should punish me. Assuming they haven't de-criminalized bank robbery yet.
But what if my great-great-grandfather held up a saloon in Cerro Gordo, CA in 1858?
Should I serve some kind of probation or court supervision?
Of course, such an idea is beyond ridiculous.
I can't imagine even if I knew for a fact that an ancestor owned slaves or worked at Auschwitz that I would feel responsible.
Such a scenario would be a black eye on the family for sure, but I wouldn't feel personally accountable.
Because that would suggest that I could have done something to stop it.
I've got enough of my own sins to atone for. I don't need anyone else's.
Leftists use white guilt for control and money by dictating how the government and corporations should operate while taking large donations.
Accountability is Control
If we genuinely felt personally responsible for our past actions, we would all be culpable for some atrocity or another.
No group of people on this planet is innocent of inflicting violence on other groups at some point in history.
Also, if we're accountable for bad deeds, does that mean we get credit for our ancestor's accomplishments?
You're welcome for the lightbulbs, by the way.
Of course, nobody feels bad about any of it. It's only a means of controlling people with individual and collective responsibility.
Remorse and accountability dictate what people do because we're vulnerable when we're guilty. At least most of us.
When your significant other is mad at you, you're more likely to buy an expensive dinner or gifts.
The upset person gains value in goods or services due to the regret of the other.
That's because you want to make things right.
But people that impress individual responsibility on others for slavery don't understand the "significant other," or leftists, in this case, will never forgive you.
You can donate money, give up your house, hire as many people of color as possible and hold regular workplace sensitivity training.
But guess what?
You'll still be on the couch.
Fixing Nothing
We had a main road in town that flooded excessively after rainfall.
So, the city made plans, ripped up the road, improved the drainage situation, and re-paved it.
They knew why the road flooded and defined specific steps to stop it. Then they went to work and fixed it.
The cement dried, and the road opened. Then it rained.
And magically, the road didn't flood.
Not exactly a modern marvel, but that's how problem-solving works.
But if we ask a BLM leader how to "fix" racism, they'll take you down a rabbit hole of "things you just can't understand."
There's no solid problem to identify, and there's no defined solution.
So even for those that bow down to leftists and are willing to "do the work," they'll never accomplish anything but victimize themselves for acceptance and give up money or services out of guilt.
That's because you can't "fix racism." Racist people will always exist to some degree.
We as humans will never erase racism any more than we'll convince Islamic extremists to stop murdering innocent women and children.
We can seek out and remove real and systematic discrimination when found, as we should.
But this new game of searching for racism everywhere only serves to push individual and collective responsibility on people.
Instead of reporting news, the media writes stories of how roads and the weather is racist.
This is how we "cry wolf" in the modern age.
If an employee calls someone a racist slur, or admits to discrimination, fire them. If white supremacist firebombs a black church put him under the prison.
But telling us "how toddlers are racist" only hurts the cause as people are less likely to pay attention when real racism is at play.
Human Responsibility
Leftists might guilt whites into individual and collective responsibility for past violence and discrimination, but what about everyone else?
What about the Rwandan genocide that murdered 800,000 Tutsi people in 1994? Are the murderer's children culpable?
How about Nazi Germany? Should a 17-year old fraulein in 2022 feel responsible for what her family did 80 years ago?
To this day, the Chinese government uses slave labor for the garment industry among others. They literally pick cotton in 2022.
Yet white Americans are responsible for slavery 200 years ago.
How is that possible?
These insane people on the left would have you believe that white people cause all violence.
Humans can be good or evil and we have an individual and collective responsibility to do good in the present. Not feel guilty for the past.
So yes, I'm suspicious when someone happens to benefit financially and socially when I have to apologize for something I didn't do.
And even if I did apologize, they wouldn't accept it.
Of course, it's clear this is all for control and money, and we see through the scam.
Compliance Leads Nowhere
The Japanese Imperial Air Force pilots that slaughtered men, women, and children at Pearl Harbor looked like the people in the stands at Yuzuru Hanyu’s Olympic event.
And when those Japanese Zero's dive-bombed the airstrips and harbors, the flag painted on their wings is similar to the modern Japanese flag.
But do we draw that distinction and hold figure skating fans responsible for murdering those Americans?
Of course not.
Those fans are completely different people with new ideas, views, and beliefs.
To suggest otherwise would be racist.
These leftist extremists can't have it both ways.
It's proven that complying and taking responsibility for things you didn't do won't satisfy anyone.
Just look at Joe Rogan. He apologized for using the words he used and agreed to put disclaimers on shows that discuss controversial topics.
And what happened? They still demand Spotify drop Joe Rogan.
Artists still seek to remove their content from the platform, and Neil Young still encourages Spotify employees to quit.
Do you see? There's no end, and nothing will satisfy the mob.
Actually, that's not true, they'll be happy when they see Joe Rogan out of a job and his family destitute.
Not that it's likely in the slightest.
But even then they won't really be satisfied, they'll only move on to the next person like a pack of zombies finished with a corpse.
Our desire to do the right thing allows the left to apply individual and collective responsibility for control of laws and how society operates.
American slavery is not the problem at hand.
If people want to fight for social justice, start with boycotting a country that openly admits to holding people in "re-education camps" with evidence of much worse.
But hey, I know how much it means for them to get their face on that Wheaties box.
Love your writing Greg! Keep up the great work!