people are always looking to justify their actions, and throughout history, some group is always to blame for everything. If it isn't the tribe in the next valley/down river,responsible for the fire and the drought that devastated our village, it's the fault of the kid who is left handed and born under a full moon. After the world became colonized, and borders where starting to get set, they had to find new people to focus their scape goat at, so it is the fault of the blacks, the jews, or the gays. Now in Amerika these days, the small groups blame the large one for everything, because thats the way things go. People fear what they don't know, and they fall easy prey to silver tongued charlatans who would give them an easy focus point for their fear, thus leading to racism, hatred, and intolerance. It is how Hitler took control of Germany. Every so often, the focus changes. Right now, it is the white mans fault. In a hundred years, maybe it will be the martians fault, or maybe the moon men.
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Date: 2008-02-13 01:02 am (UTC)