Posted on 09/07/2020 3:29:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
As rioters and demonstrators continually take to the streets in major U.S. cities as if it’s their literal job now (okay, it probably IS for plenty), ordinary working schmucks like me can’t help but wonder: How on earth do they find the time? What a life of leisure these people must have, with the luxury of apparently sleeping during the day and being able to go out every night and raise hell for the "cause." I certainly couldn’t afford to do it, and you probably couldn’t either. I mean, looting may put a flatscreen or three on the table now and then, but it’s hard to imagine even that being able to replace a steady paycheck. But there they are, night after night, giving America a daily visual lesson on why we should never put their ilk in power.
But then I thought, wait, even if it’s not George Soros paying them, the government probably is. Sure, some have real jobs, maybe, but just spitballing here - plenty are probably getting some sort of unemployment check because of the COVID stimulus packages. Despite the fact that thousands of companies across the country are desperate for good help these days as they try to ramp back up, it’s simply too easy to stay on the dole. Simply “apply” for a bunch of jobs, then don’t show up for the interview and you’re golden for another week of free cash and nightly hijinks.
I’m doing some speculating and generalizing, of course. Obviously there are exceptions, and I’m definitely not knocking the folks who really do work hard, play by the rules, and choose to demonstrate peacefully after work during daylight hours, even if I think there are precious few facts to back up their cause. Certainly, there is a time and a place to make one’s voice heard on issues that are important. Lockdown protesters did it in Michigan and other places, but then again they got more leftist condemnation for ONE DAY than these BLM rioters have gotten for three months straight.
All of which brings us to the subject of what we’re celebrating today - work! Without it, obviously, it’s hard to imagine anything of all that much use to society getting done, and it’s easy to imagine plenty of value getting destroyed. That’s what we’re doing, or allowing to be done, with Western civilization these days, and frankly, if people had less time on their hands it’s hard not to imagine things not being better. Human beings should be working, providing for our families, serving others, learning, teaching, and building a civilization and a culture that will endure when we are long gone. The ability to work, to provide for our own and help others we choose to help, is almost as critical to human existence as breathing. Not only does it connect us to our part in this amazing, interconnected economy that allows us all to obtain the material things we need for life and its enjoyment, it also gives us the psychologically comforting knowledge that others rely on us, that we have a purpose.
Of course, it’s no coincidence that one of the most significant times of social upheaval has come in the midst of one of the greatest government-created disasters in history. Our overblown response to coronavirus took life-sustaining work away from far too many people for far too long. Millions of people, from business owners to front line workers, were essentially told by their government that their jobs were so counterproductive, so purposeless, so ... “nonessential,” that society would rather PAY THEM TO SIT AT HOME than to actually do their jobs and earn their living by the proverbial sweat of their own brows. In retrospect, how sick is that? There are certainly greater blows to one’s sense of self-worth, but not many. Someday, when history gets some real perspective on this tragic era, the deliberate refusal to allow millions of Americans to pursue their livelihoods will be clear for what it was - pure evil.
Take the African-American community, for example, a group sadly among those hardest hit in every possible way. Before the coronavirus panic began, black unemployment sat at historically low levels. Now it languishes in the teens. Restaurant and service industry workers, a significant percentage of whom are minorities, were basically told “your job isn’t important,” then given an extra $600 per week in federal unemployment on top of what the states already granted. It was every leftist’s wet dream times ten, millions of Americans on the government teat. And most, sadly, were deceived as to the overall lethality of coronavirus and thus supported the lockdowns not because of reality, but because the governments that implemented them essentially PAID THEM OFF.
Now, idleness being the devil’s workshop and all that, thousands upon thousands of people, most if not all of whom have plenty to eat and a warm place to live, are finding other, uh, less productive things to do with their time. They demand what others have, and they destroy what others built.
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh nailed the tragic irony in June with this tweet: “If you’ve been protesting ... because you don’t have to work or contribute to society and yet are still able to live in comfort, the system you seek to destroy is the very one that enables you to live that way. Take the system down and that easy life of yours goes with it.”
I can’t help but think that our societal problems aren’t caused by “systemic racism,” or “the patriarchy,” or capitalism, or “white privilege,” or any of the other nonsensical non-issues leftists trot out to try to fool people into accepting their sick, twisted “solutions.” No, the answer, or at least AN answer, is a lot simpler than all that - more people just need to get back to some good old-fashioned, productive, life-sustaining WORK!
No I think at this point systemic racism is a huge problem.
Whites are hated by all, including many of their own spawn now.
It is indeed a problem and one that is not going away any time soon
I think systemic racism is far less of a problem than systemic stupidity.
Well, is not “work” a white concept? (sarcasm)
I’ve been thinking this for months now. Heck, even our grandparents knew the simple truth that “the Devil makes work for idle hands.”
People need to get back to work and school immediately and we can try to repair the massive damage this shutdown has done to us. The author is right: It has made work look useless and valueless and has destroyed people’s sense of accomplishment and even competence and autonomy. Instead of doing and creating things and contributing to the human project - which is what gives us our sense of worth - as human beings are meant to do, we have become passive, silent, isolated units, waiting for the government to feed us and clothe us and tell us what to do.
And the forces of evil - that is, the Marxists - have seen their golden opportunity and seized the moment.
Cbs show big brother just had a black woman browbeat and bully a white person into quitting.
Her twitter army egged on by her husband where threatening him and his girlfriend.
After he said he was quitting she then said God caused him to fall into a trap
Thay show truly is a microcosm of society.
“Hard work” just seems futile and a suckers bet to them. Most young people see no means to afford a home or family these days. Unless they are very talented in some rare specialty or have family connections, few young people can even afford the most basic home.
Wages for workers have been stagnant for decades since we’ve been sold out for cheap foreign labor by both parties. The only way to survive is to play politics and become an overseer for these miserable people. And people who aren’t sociopaths are frankly SICK of it.
This failed “system” where an average worker no longer sees any benefit to working hard is the real frustration of the rioters. This is why most of them are actually white and see no issue with “burning it all down”. They see “the system” as already decayed beyond repair and nothing but a tool for their lifelong oppression...
America’s actual ‘systemic racism’ goes by the Orwellian name of ‘affirmative action’.
Systemic racism is a narrative that tells us all that America needs to be destroyed, it cant be fixed and those responsible need to be punished and removed and America needs to be rebuilt without the majority which is white.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not a sound basis for an economic system. Not only does it annoy Peter, but he’ll eventually go broke, and his incentive to keep producing will be destroyed. Then he and Paul will have to go back to work, probably by threat of force. That’s why socialism fails.
The goal of government should be to have as many people working as productively as possible as long as possible. Democrats take money from those who are working and give it to non-workers in return for their votes, resulting in more poverty, and justifying their taking more money from those who work.
Back to Work!
Systemic racism, like the actions of a few bad police officers, is just an excuse that some folks are using to justify rioting and looting.
No sarcasm required. It is, and the roots of it in American are the Puritan work ethic. The Puritans were white. Wait a second. Maybe sarcasm is required. I think just talked myself out of the original meaning of my post. What was the most dominate characteristic of Puritans? Skin color or religion?
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