No More Faults - Just Empathy

If you have been paying attention over say the past ten years you would have noticed something.

In the past if someone did something wrong they were punished for it in some way. The punishment would have matched the crime or issue to some extent, lessons would have been learned and behaviour modified.

In the new world we empathize, contextualize, sensationalize and explain every kind of behaviour away in some manner. Instead of punishment we make excuses. He is not a monster, he has a family, it was a tragedy for all involved. The language makes excuses for the behaviour.

The language is made up by out of touch individuals who often live in very privileged positions, behind walls of position and wealth. Reality is replaced by euphemism, standards are dropped or removed altogether and everyone becomes the same even when they are not.

When it comes to the law, education and social matters there are qualifies issued based on race, gender or class. The rules, norms and protocols are abandoned because they are 'too hard' for to poor people who are different.

The liberal higher education official stands up and talks about diversity then hops in their Benz and drives home to the opulent house in the hills. The really lazy ones hide behind multiculturalism which allows them to do what every they want. They no longer have to do any real teaching or assessing, just cite from the standard set of platitudes. They have become the classical apparatchik, calling each other comrade and all the same under the flag of diversity.

It has allowed people like Gore and Arafat to get a 'peace' prize and has cheapened our education establishments. Excellence is no longer the standard. Does the best peace person get the peace prize or the best journalist the Pulitzer?

About the only place you can find merit based achievement these days is in sport. Does our football teams demand that 15% of the team be Asian, 20% Aboriginal and 15% Middle Eastern? Sounds strange but we apply these kinds of requirements, regardless of merit, to so many other areas of our society.