Friday 7 December 2012

TTSR Mascots Of The Anointed

Comments on The Thomas Sowell Reader, pages 57-59, Mascots Of The Anointed.


A recent New York Times article [1], that told the sympathetic story of fading prison inmates, had more purpose than just enlightening its readers.  This article was centered on Allen Jacobs, sentenced to two to four years of prison at the Coxackie Correctional Facility in New York City for passing forged checks.  Jacobs lived life hard for fifty years and now, due to his liver failure, he faces a fate he never wanted, death in prison.  While one of the facilities volunteers was with him he broke down crying and explained how much he did not want to die in Jail.  Of course he did not want to die in jail, but it was his choices that lead him to poor health and a prison sentence.

Stories like this are circulating the news constantly.  Although they do encourage people to take action for change, many articles have a twist.  One of these reports started out about releasing handicapped and sick convicts and it ended by advocating prison inmates over fifty be released.   The night and day difference between releasing criminals who are weak, dying, or impaired as to releasing healthy criminals who are hiding under the umbrella of age is appalling.  I’ve seen my eighty-year-old Grandfather shoot clay pigeons dead-on with a shotgun.  Fifty-year-olds are not going to have any trouble causing trouble, but that is all hidden under the mascot’s costume.

So why are the Anointed (*) taking pains to publicize the unfortunate circumstances of others?  Because those whom society has condemned---criminals, illegal aliens, bums, ect.--- are eligible to become mascots for the Anointed, symbols of their superior knowledge and overflowing goodness.  By showing concern for those society shuns, they think themselves morally superior to the rest of us. 

Is it worth all this?  To them it is of the most importance.  Abraham Lincoln said that the greatest danger to the future of the United States was not from foreign enemies, but from the class of people which “Thirsts and burns for distinction.”

Now, after you have read this, and seen an example of the Anointed’s use of these people, will you question whether the News you read and shows you watch are setups for the Anointed’s distinction?



(*)  “The Anointed” refers to those that have bestowed on themselves special regard, higher authority, and greater insight.  Those three things make up who the anointed see themselves as.


 “Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”

“The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
than seven men who can answer sensibly.”

“They hold fast to their evil purpose;
they talk of laying snares secretly,
thinking, “Who can see them?””



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