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Communism for Kids! // Oppressor vs. Oppressed?
One of the earliest statements in The Communist Manifesto labels the entirety of history as oppressor vs. oppressed. There is only the oppressor, who wields the power, and the oppressed, the victim of the powerful. This premise is so weak, it’s astounding to me this philosophy ever gained enough ground that it should have had the power to extinguish over 100 million lives.
Thou Shalt Have No Steven Crowders Before Me
There’s an angle to this whole Crowder/Daily Wire debacle that I haven’t seen anyone else talking about, and I’d like to explore it a bit with you. When we place people on pedestals, we blind ourselves to what’s really going on, and we lose our ability to discern the truth. Let’s break it down.
The Missing Piece
We all long to be free. Not in the usual sense of that word, as in, free from bondage, or free to to act however one chooses - but free from ourselves. Free from the crushing suspicion that I am not, in fact, a good person.
The human desire for absolution runs deep in the race, and our increasingly secular culture finds the origin of this seemingly spiritual impulse more and more elusive. But what does that mean, to be absolved?