I am a rich, white, man

[hoserofdoom]

I have shifted my happy, publicly consumable blogging to Facebook... but I still have depressed, un-public-worthy things to write. This unfortunately means that my LJ blog is going to degrade into a morass of self-deprecation. Nothing for it, I guess, that's just who I am

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[ghap]

Fuck the feminists, fuck the rebels, leave them behind as the poor useless self-destructive victims they are.

I understand why you're drawn to their thinking, I am too... There really is much unfairness in the world that drags us all down.

But I'm pretty sure we've reached the local maximum for their strategy. Bitch bitch bitch, hate hate hate. People don't listen to their important message anymore because they wear their anger, incompetence and elitism on their sleve.

They start searching for the causes of injustice, but instead of having the personal fortitude to admit their part in the play they blame it all on the other: the rich, the white, the men, the powerful, the police, the politicians. When their silly schemes fail it's because of The Man's doing. It's not because they are guided more by hate than any sense of what's practical. They decry those they see as powerful for heaping hate and misunderstanding on those they see as weak, but are totally oblivious to the hate and misunderstanding they have toward their chosen enemies. In the end, they show a level of enlightenment on par with Hitler's blind vitrol against the Jews.

[hoserofdoom]

I'm not willing to go that far. I'm annoyed not so much at the anger directed at me as at my seeming inability to do anything useful in response. And I don't see anger as hate, necessarily. Yes, there are some folks who just dive in whole-hog and let themselves hate, but there are still plenty who are angry but sufficiently aware of themselves to refrain from hatred.

And we haven't reached a local maximum on many of these issues. There are good people working towards good ends by effective means: but they don't get the air time they deserve, because crazed ranting makes for better television. I'm just not one of them, and never will be.