by mos6507 » Mon 14 Dec 2009, 14:25:45
I think the reason this topic upsets me so much is I used to be married to someone who never took responsibility for her own problems. She always had someone else to blame. I think scapegoating is one of the worst human character traits there is.
The problems we have today are systemic. They go waaay behind our public officials. This attempt we have to look at authority as the keys to our happiness or misery largely ignore the big contribution that our collective behavior makes, such as the mass hysteria of consumption in the form of SUVs, McMansions, and ARMs. I bat away any and all ideas that attempt to raise up J6P as some Jesus-like martyr at the hands of TPTB.