At which point, readers may object that being born in a relatively congenial part of the world is not a “privilege,” or by implication a basis for guilt, a thing for which to atone. Any more than being born somewhere less congenial is a sin, a thing for which to atone.
“I think they know they ‘got lucky’ but don’t really care,” chides one of the subsequent commenters. “Everything is luck and random chance,” insists another. Note the implication that the comfort and agreeableness of a society is merely a matter of chance, of luck. As if the preceding cultivation of values and behaviour played no part whatsoever.
As if culture and civilisation didn’t matter.
Imposing crap on you since birth has been my experience…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trudeau-government-offers-free-access-national-parks-migrants-only
Steadily getting worse every single day.
From the time they were little I have told my kids that there are only two guarantees in life: one is that you were born; the other is that you will die. The rest comes down to luck, and your own choices .
It pays to choose your parents wisely.
The shithole world is the shithole world because of corruption, lack of education, and a failure to develop laws that encourage development. It’s nobody else’s fault. The economic powerhouses of Hong Kong and Singapore arose from nothing in a short time with no resources other than smart greedy people, a good thing.
If you are born into a good family, in a good town, in a good country, it was not luck.
It was your predecessors who made the good family.
It was the townspeople who made the town good.
It was the citizens that made the nation good.
Your parents chose to bring you into this existence. It is up to you to continue a good family, to be a good citizen, to be a good person.
If you were not born into good circumstances, it is still up to you to make things better for yourself and your children.
As Mark Steyn points out, any place where the British were in charge turned out much better than any place they weren’t.
The United States policy is still if you’re not into my agreement, then you are the enemy…
Deception running rampant as lawlessness is encouraged.
Mainstream Media still can’t say that that vaccine has caused any injuries. Just the company has too much stock of it available and was effective with curing Covid in millions of people.