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There are certain constants which cannot be denied: One nation after another has created a dependency culture that feeds off the labor of productive citizens.

We are expected to believe this dependency is a direct consequence of cultural failings attributed to racism and long-term moral indebtedness wrought by a history of oppression. If the substance of this argument held any truth at all, civilization would yet be an unfulfilled prophecy.

The history of history is laden with records of man’s struggle towards enlightenment; that struggle has regularly included the subjugation of one tribe by another, one nation by another, one race by another – It is doubtful the historical lineage of any living being is void of some form of oppression.  How, then, have so many of us independently wended our way out of the plague of oppression – Oppression of equal force and ignobility alleged by today’s “tragically oppressed masses”?

Nary has a single nation escaped the ill effects of invasion and conquest. This is the nature of man’s historical venture to enlightenment. How individuals within those nations respond to freedom is far, far more critical to their timely achievement of independence than the lingering effects of oppression. Where can one hope to find greater knowledge of one’s dignity and independence than by reaching to pick up a brick from life’s rubble – regardless of how that rubble came to be? 

Consider the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti to the devastation caused by allied bombs dropped on Berlin. The whole of Germany was flattened to the ground. The few buildings left standing were uninhabitable. Yet, within hours of surrender, Germans took to the streets determined to restore their nation. Movies of the aftermath of the allied bombings show Germans pushing wheel barrels filled with salvageable bricks and other materials.  Old, young, infirmed and healthy Germans struggled to survive in the rubble, to rebuild, to prevail. This behavior contrasts with the pathetic images of Haitians whose outstretched, begging, helpless arms struck a note with sympathetic hearts; so helpless those Haitians, most of the civilized world came to rescues them – From themselves, it seems. One video after another showed Haitians walking along streets past piles of rubble and debris; so few were the videos of Haitians actually working to salvage their future one has to wonder what the death toll might have been without the aid of benevolent nations – Nations Haitians are now blaming for causing all sorts of havoc.

Few will argue that oppression is a horrible, tragic legacy of mankind’s inhumanity to man; likewise, no sane man can present a reasonable argument that self-imposed misery is anything less: It is one thing for chains to be forced upon a man, another for a man to shackle himself then blame another for his imprisonment.

With each passing year more and more people join the dependent classes. Those increases are always coupled with increasing accusations of racism, oppression, colonialism, depravation… In short, dependency creates a burgeoning sub-culture of blame and animosity – One feeds on the other.

What will come of these matters is speculative, but if history is our guide, and more often than not it is, when the dependency culture has its grasp upon a nation nothing less than a brutal storm must follow. Those of us who see this fraud, and the toll it is taking upon the course of human history, are intolerant of the alleged ‘helpless masses’ whose contagious affliction drains the life-blood from their fellow man. The wreckage of the past can be cured with labor and commitment; the wreckage of the present will only be stopped by insisting those who create the rubble must bear the burden of their contempt.