You’re offended – well, so bloody what?
I don’t watch television, listen to the radio, read papers or flick through magazines. I cannot bear the media in general because of their lies, censorship, sensationalism and hypocritical delight in taking the moral high ground.
Yet even I’ve been affected – or should I say, afflicted – by the ever-so-loud mutterings of the ’I’m offended!’ brigade, a vocal group of weak-minded people who are desperately outraged or wounded by just about everything that’s harmless … and who the rest of us seem to be allowing to drown out common sense, not to mention freedom of speech. All be clever brainwashing and design, of course.
These people are morons and if you’re offended by that, you’re probably one of them.
How fabulous it is to have grown up in a time where people could enjoy decent debate from opposite sides of the fence, throw all points into the ring and slap glasses of beer together whilst relishing and embracing difference of opinion. It was called intelligent conversation back then – or just normal conversation – accepting that there are many sides to a story and that usually nobody is right, including yourself.
These days it’s called bullying.
The very art of putting yourself into another person’s shoes, to consider their feelings and opinions even if you don’t agree with them, is a human trait that’s sadly being lost to those who don’t wish to take the time to understand. They’ve grown up in an era where it’s second nature to be offended and to punish the offender – to ‘cancel’, expose and shame them – without so much as even talking to them. Childlike at best, evil at worst.
I’ve tried to put myself in their shoes, after all they’re an innocent (ish) product of a sinister agenda, a push for a tyrannical, dystopian society they’ll never be able to foresee or get out of without us critical thinkers showing them the way. I feel sorry for what they’re stacking up for themselves but they’re rapidly dragging us down with them and that’s unforgivable. And sad as it is, embarrassing as it is, dangerous as it is, they just can’t see the long term cost of what they’re doing.
Well, the cost is freedom of speech and freedom of liberties.
I’m hoping that common sense will prevail, that the sheer numbers of people waking up to the agenda continues to explode and that together we can bring these people to their senses and teach them that difference of opinion is just that – ‘difference’. And remind them that while they’ve been busy lecturing us about embracing ‘difference’, they’ve been doing anything but.
