Blaming the Victim

A long time ago, when war was invented, the groups of humans who learned to unquestionably follow their leaders, became the most successful and eventually took over the planet. The subjects followed their kings easily and often unto death. This kind of commitment paid off and now we have a world of fanatic followers of nationalism.

However, a group was always around, which questioned this unswerving loyalty. Often they were marked as traitors, imprisoned, made outcasts or simply killed. Today, we call them the "left" or even "classic conservatives."

The kings, learning that they had an unwavering power over their subjects, decided to use this to their advantage, to increase their power and equate their authority with God's. As even those on the right started to see the flaws in their logic, the power of kings started to wane.

As democracy arose and the power of totalitarian systems waned, the need for politicians to assert their power, became ever more important. They relied on this old class of loyal subjects to assist them to play their games of control. When the voice coming from the left became too high, they simply created another war, with the hopes of invoking this outdated instinct of survival. It usually works, with even those from the left caving in and passing the law or allowing the war, only to find out later that they were duped again.

However, the endless wars would either end in bankruptcy or in defeat and in these times, the left would arise and a revolution would take place, which would give more rights to the common man and take those away from the ruler.

One common tactic these supporters of the establishment use is to blame the victim. This is saying that those who criticize the system are somehow evil or wrong in what they do, not realizing that, in fact, they are rebelling against something unrighteous that they are witnessing or actually being the victim of.

This is an easy tactic, often employed, but, in reality only a delay till the inevitable fall of those who stand by the powers-that-be. War is a long outdated concept, and the sooner, we all wake up from our delusions and realize that, the better...