Societies Can Be Better Than Others by Gary Hainsworth

I hate to see the City of Lights surrounded by so much darkness. I don’t like to see “the hexagon” trapped in a politically correct shame spiral often perpetuated by hack human beings seeking largely undeserved rentals. Personally, I preferred the term ‘privilege’ when it was called ‘original sin’. Some cultures are demonstrably better than others and the proof is in their actions. How do they treat their women or women in general? How do they treat their children or children in general? How do they treat their boys? How do they treat their girls? How do they treat their friends? How do they treat their enemies? How do they treat those that are neutral? How do they treat partisans on either side of the conflict? How do they treat the rich? How do they treat the poor? For a society which treats the poor as if poverty alone sufficed to grant one automatic moral superiority is doomed. A society which demonizes the rich because of their prosperity is also doomed. Perhaps, more so since at least in a plutocratic scheme a la Downton Abbey, the poor can find some form of employment under the auspices of the ridiculously rich.

First written, November 14, 2015
Revised: February 15, 2016