One cannot miss the fact that the world seems to be a very angry place. Angry groups are marching everywhere demanding that all sorts of things be removed or changed or at least made "legal." All that is needed to create this anger is the identification of some group that is, in some way, violating the "rights" of some other group. It doesn't matter that no real injury is taking place at all; it is enough that the perception of injury is alleged and therefore fighting is called for even including violence against individuals, destruction of property, and even torching of whole communities.
At the heart of this phenomenon is "community organizing." The pitch goes something like this: The "organizer" comes to a neighborhood where social dysfunction and the resulting poverty has destroyed any hope the people might have had. The "organizer" points to large buildings in another part of the city and tells these people that "those people have taken your money." "You must rise up and demand that they give it back. If they resist, you must march in the streets and disrupt their lavish lifestyle which they enjoy at your expense."
The term "political correctness" is the tool by which these organizers create outrage in unsuspecting and vulnerable groups of people. For example, the "proper" response to the shooting of a black man by a white policeman is to take to the streets armed with slogans, provided by the organizers, in enraged "protest." The organizer has successfully caused one group (all black people) to violently confront another group (all policemen). Marauding gangs of these "protesters" now are justified in smashing and burning buildings, killing police officers, and wreaking havoc wherever they go. All the while, the true merits of the incident are not investigated and the violence spreads all around the country via social media.
The PC police have been very busy. We now have "white privilege," where just the shade of your skin is now offensive to some group of people who have a slightly different shade. We have "racists" all around our schools, our government, our communities who are supposedly subverting the fortunes of groups of people. There is a vast conspiracy by some to impose 18th century ideas about God, justice, and private property on poor defenseless people who are forced to live in poverty. These "racists" discriminate against "immigrants who have come to America for a better life.
What does all of this mean?
It is no accident that our children in public schools are not taught to parse ideas about history, philosophical ideas, or social theories. It is not accidental that our children are not taught mathematics or anything about our nation's founding ideas. Instead they are fed a steady diet of PC ideas about race, the environment, "social justice," and a host of other topics including gender and homosexuality. In short, our children are taught to be angry.
Competition, on the other hand, is about a process by which the individual is taught to look inside himself and find ways to make himself stronger, smarter and more able to find rational solutions to the problems he will later face whether it be physical competition or in the arena of ideas. Learning to successfully compete in virtually any arena translates to all other areas of one life. Clearly, fighting does not produce any usable results whatever that would make the individual more able to solve the problems of life.
I beg of you who would be clear-eyed seekers of wisdom and truth. Teach your children the quiet art of competition and you will be giving them the gift of a lifetime.
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