tooblue
05-02-2017, 10:38 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/02/handmaids-tale-donald-trump-america
We all, after all, possess varying levels of complicity with the culture that produced and rewarded Donald Trump. We all compromise for the sake of our comfort, and we all to one degree or another turn a blind eye to suffering that does not directly affect us.
But how much easier to tell ourselves society hates us, how much easier to use those stories to justify violence and war. Claiming victimhood, though, is a quick and easy way to absolve us of our responsibility, without the hard work of reconciling it.
We all, after all, possess varying levels of complicity with the culture that produced and rewarded Donald Trump. We all compromise for the sake of our comfort, and we all to one degree or another turn a blind eye to suffering that does not directly affect us.
But how much easier to tell ourselves society hates us, how much easier to use those stories to justify violence and war. Claiming victimhood, though, is a quick and easy way to absolve us of our responsibility, without the hard work of reconciling it.