To be played while reading.
I read this post on one my favorite blogs, Return of Kings. Read the post because it really is great and does an excellent job of explaining, in an easy to digest format, what the Golden Rule is. Basically it is the rule that you should only treat others as you yourself would want to be treated. But how that rule has been perverted by the weak and lazy to force great men of success to give up that hard work, sacrifice and success to the greater good in the name of "balancing the game" is the real point of the article.
I know that many weak hearted individuals would like to see the natural order of survival abolished (they hate the natural law of survival of the fittest) so that everyone can have "their fair share". What the article delves in to is that this "fair share" is not fair at all because the people calling for it are ultimately attempting to tip the balance in their favor by unjustly forcing those who, by virtue of hard work, intelligence and discipline, have come out ahead of their fellow humans. This proves that they are breaking the Golden Rule. Should be simple to understand. I do want to stress, however, that this does not include those who have enriched themselves and gained power over society through ill gotten gains (banksters, etc. I'm looking at you), this is aimed at people who have started legitimate businesses that provided a service or product that is so good people willingly hand over their hard earned gains to obtain said products and services.
I was born poor, in a refugee camp. After moving to a foreign country my father, through hard work and sheer balls, built a successful small business around the trade that he so loves and cherishes ultimately becoming one of the best in his trade in the entire world. My parents divorced and instead of bitching and complaining my mother earned a degree while working full time and raising two rowdy boys with less than bare minimum income.
My point is that people who complain that others have more and they deserve the same thing yet do nothing to improve their lot in life are full of shit. My friend's family is black. Hearing about their history and how the family came to be successful in the early 20th century to the next generation building large successful businesses, while often being the first blacks to be involved in those industries, and their mindset that they do not accept the fact they can be held down for any reason proves that brains and determination are worth more than making excuses as to why you can't succeed.
I hate the terms Liberal and Conservative because it further endorses the bullshit left/right paradigm shoved down our throats but it seems that those who identify as Liberal view the world as something that can be turned in to an egalitarian utopia. They lament the fact that nature prescribes survival of the fittest. They equate individual success with everyone's success because they cannot differentiate the efforts of a few (not just the owners of an enterprise the but the capable people who contributed to that success) with the well being of the whole. It's not fair to expect people with something to take care of people with nothing unless those people with nothing are willing to learn themselves what it takes to take care of themselves. Want a simpler explanation?
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime.
The level playing field does not exist because the people who call for it do not play on that field. They tilt the field in their favor and through sheer numbers end up winning. They are also incapable of differentiating the success of the legitimate with the success of the illegitimate and this is where the danger comes in to play. Because of this most basic logical flaw they expect everyone with more to take care of everyone with less. I am not advocating an Uncle Scrooge mentality (hell, I don't even have to defend this mindset) but a man who has a small business that is inundated with irrational regulations and taxes that fund the programs that funnel money to the lesser is hard pressed to run his enterprise so that at the end of the day even his own family can have a roof over their head, food on the table, adequate healthcare and financial protection.
Men understand that business is business and personal feelings and emotions play no part in it. As was said in the Godfather:
In other words what a man has to do a man has to do. In business this is one of the ultimate survival tactics. After all, how can a man survive and provide if his business fails? The type of people who sit on the sidelines and do nothing, dutifully sucking Big Daddy Governments Dick, but expect a pay day are exactly the types who are NOT playing on a level playing field. They use the threat of force (in our case the laws of government) to force a "level" playing field. In other words they know their cause has no merit in natural law and thus must use the perceived force and coercion of government forces to "equalize" the playing field. However this does not sit well with the rational man. The rational man, the business man, the type willing to risk it all to ensure a successful life realizes that the world is not fair. Nature is not fair. It cares not for your well being or survival. It throws at you everything in its power to try to destroy you, not because it hates you (it is in fact neutral to your survival) but because these tests ensure that the strongest survive so as to propagate a better form of the species in its progeny. This does not mean that the same man cares not for the well being of humanity. He however realizes that with "equality" comes not progress but regression. If the point of humanity is to progress towards a better future then the rational man realizes that certain steps must be taken to realize the greatest of human potential, a better tomorrow. To achieve this on a macro level we must endure micro levels of aggression, conniving, deceit and superiority. Hate it or love it this has been the modus operandi of the human species since time immemorial. It is the reason we went from living in caves to walking on the moon.It's nothing personal, Sonny. It's strictly business
Like americanbk says in the post that inspired me:
Bill Gates had to screw over many people in the business world and create an unfair monopoly to earn his fortune - but now, as one of the greatest philanthropists of all time, he has the power to give millions of dollars each year to the causes of his choosing.
Men want to change the world, it's our biological imperative to affect the environment around us. In the modern, interconnected world this means helping the many, the poor and suffering people of lands far away and the truly destitute of the people in our own communities. But we also live in a world where money means the difference between nothing and everything. Taking that in to account it is only natural for a man who's goal is to affect the world around him to build a sizable war chest to do that very thing, whatever the means. Yes Bill Gates is an unscrupulous business man who has been disparaged for his shady business practices on his way to becoming one of the richest men in the world. Is it bad? Yes and no. Integrity and honor is still thought of highly in business, but was it wrong? Well if one views the world as a competition of the fittest trying to survive against other unscrupulous people then no. But the point is the man did what he had to, whether right or wrong to, to put himself in to the position to help the less fortunate, a noble cause indeed. We won't delve in to whether his charitable efforts have succeeded or failed because at least he's trying and that's more than most people can say. I also want to point out that he is not the only person doing good in the world, those toiling away in obscurity doing their damned best to do whatever they can to improve the life of even at least one fellow human need to be commended, but the point is that humans are complex. One does right and turns around and does wrong but ultimately (except for the complete psychopaths in various positions of power) wants to do something good before they die, this quote is for them.
The path to a righteous cause is often the darkest.
- Thomas Papp
End rant. And now for some eye candy.
She's Vanessa. Young, beautiful and aims to please in my future backyard pool. Overall 9.5/10
PS: The legs leading to the perfect little butt, the slender waist and the tiny white bikini with sexy heels makes her, at this point for me, the ideal woman. Shameless I am in my hornographic fantasies but this is real love for the woman, misogyny does not exist here.
