Monday, September 19, 2005
The Culture of Dependence Brings No Support in Times of Crisis
from Moonbat Central:
"...Nothing warps human nature like the belief in “being owed” combined by the feeling, left by paltry welfare payments, that the debt “owed” is never paid. Thousands of welfare recipients are used to having everything given to them–albeit in insufficient quantity to be satisfying. Thousands have no concept of working for wages, much less building a business. These same thousands rightfully look at the police and politicians as corrupt. In this twisted existence, the idea of initiative and work does not exist. From their distorted view of the world, looting in the midst of disaster and shooting at rescue helicopters makes perfect sense..."
These comments might be seen as the "old arguments" of conservatives regarding the futility and dishonesty of the paternalistic welfare state (the Franco-Saxon model of distributed destitution and trained helplessness) but the consistency of their accuracy over time hardly diminishes their poignancy. This is not about "lacking compassion," its about the natural degradation that occurs when the parent/state "helps" people by merely making them a herd of grazing cattle in farms of socialist bureaucracy.
...A good article with honest and timeless points on human nature held captive by phony ideology masquerading as altruism.
