I wrote this a few days ago, seems relevant:
By default, I do not suffer fools or assholes gladly. Sometimes I wish to, and at other times I refuse to. And, to be honest, I am comfortable filing almost everybody under at least one of these categories. Unfortunately. There is an untamed, heartfelt sentiment within me that wants to be nice, accepting and forgiving of everyone, for everything, but I cannot see how we are to be aware of and-so capable of addressing faults that we refuse to acknowledge. And there are things on this planet that must be addressed.
I think that most of my species is currently buying into a zeitgeist of false social virtues, that of an uncritically fostered will to accept all flaws and differences, simply because they are flaws and differences. It's blatantly unintuitive coddling that absolves a person, and his world, from imperative opportunities for introspection, critique, responsibility and a sense of integrity that has been worked for. I would say that man is entitled to such a life if he were not a member of society, where his every decision has consequences on the world around him.
We cater to irrationality as if it is not synonymous with discordance. As if we don't care about a better world, or a rational one. We try to give everybody a hyper-empowered individual status as if we don't have to live together, and learn how to. Through this idiocy we pretend that lethargy-born sentiments such as 'to each their own' are actually plausible on a planet that is, and only ever will become, more crowded. The result is a bunch of overly entitled individuals that care only about themselves, putting little to no thought into what is right and wrong, and of the consequences of our actions.
I am a fiercely inedependent person, but, in recent, I find myself often wondering, and worrying, if we are not taking things too far. So much of how we utilize our first world 'freedoms' or 'rights' depends on the exploitation of other people. And animals. Anything that is out of sight and thus out of our minds. We appear as complete fools in this circumstance, making decisions sheerly out of inconsideration and unfounded feelings of entitlement. Ruining the lives of others. We pretend that we understand and care about equality, or decency. We are well-versed in declaring that we are imperfect, and that we are no better or more deserving than others. But it's just talk. Political correctness to avoid a scrutiny from others. Moreover, to avoid even our own scrutiny.
Nobody wants to inherit problems. With this culture of tolerance, as well as modesty, it seems fine to us that we should relax completely from the one thing that would keep us from the desire in all of us to execute the most direct and care-free rush to hedonic fulfillment: Critical Thought.
It quickly becomes apparent how full of shit we are, when we dare to make even the slightest of efforts to question ourselves. Why do we have the right to systematically slaughter some species of animals, and to not even be mean to others? Why are child abuse, insanity, misogny and homophobia perfectly acceptable, let alone respectable, simply so long as these things fall under the safety blanket of being a persons religious beliefs? If you really love somebody, why would you prohibit them from anything they may want to do that would make them happy?
We are stewing in non-sense, assuring ourselves that the ability to condone this circumstance is a point of moral grace and virtue, and a path to social harmony. We 'think' that respecting monotheistic viewpoints that do not respect our own makes any sense at all. We are sure that we know our ass from a hole in the ground, despite how little time we devote to the matter. We run on oblivion and arrogance, confident, despite our complete lack of forethought on matters, that we can improvise educated opinions in real-time.
Ultimately, we waste this independence by disempowering everybody to a point where noones opinion is any better or worse. Of course, this is a joke that we fail miserably at. We regularly incarcerate people who cross legal lines and share the rough side of our tongue with people often enough. Some are better at repressing their judgements than others, of course. But these people are merely the most given to a false hierarchy of social conduct. One that tries to justify itself by violating itself, judging other peoples decision to be judgemental as a mistake.
Indeed, it behooves us to abstrain from being careless in our judgements. But this careless spill into misperceiving non-judgement as a sweeping virtue in itself, and that the more is the merrier is hilarious. It is a testament to a zenith of idiocy that we have managed to convince ourselves that it is both intellectually and morally reprehensible to call it like we see it. Let us pause to reacquaint ourselves the definition and function of judging things.
Judgement -
1. an act or instance of judging.
2. the ability to judge, make a decision, or form an opinion objectively, authoritatively, and wisely, especially in matters affecting action; good sense; discretion
3. the demonstration or exercise of such ability or capacity
4. the forming of an opinion, estimate, notion, or conclusion, as from circumstances presented to the mind
If you believe that this is an negligible way of existing, then I find your intuition on the matter to be gravely lacking. I would also surmise that you lack committment to a genuine inquiry of how things are, and what is wrong or right. Seeking to strip any and all power of thought and opinion, the predecessors to action, and thus the possibility for positive change; you undo yourselves. You would point your finger at your brother, who very well may keep more of you in his heart than you do of him, and denounce him as self-righteous. Oblivious that the modern, civilized world that you live in, from which you are even able to have come to know of this persons existence, has been created by some of the most beautiful and treasured self-righteous individuals in the history of our species.
It is only through ignorance, in its aforementioned guises, that we have begun to interfere with a staple means of social progress throughout the entirety of our history. To strip power from the individual is to strip power from us all, propagating an unecessarily tragic unfolding of history, derelict.
