The Saccharine Success Story Most repeat lawbreakers who come from poorer backgrounds have had few opportunities in life, and, RE their best and earliest one — the opportunity to get an education — the offer is generally wasted on them, because they receive little to no genuine support for an education – even at the primary school level – from their parents (in our defense, we provide public meals for them during the non-school period of summer, and we buy them school supplies, winter coats and Christmas toys... then we pat ourselves on the back, assuring ourselves that we have done our duty!). And as they grow up, neglected/ abused children develop into troublemakers in the classroom, leaving the teachers – whose job it ISNT to replace the disciplining that is supposed to originate at home! – with little choice but to winnow them out, and thus these individuals get passed up and eventually left out, and often — though, of course, not always* — the left-out individual ends up getting into trouble, again and again, and in certain US states, the system is pre-rigged against this type of individual, such that after three-in-a-row incarcerations, its incarceration for life, leading to attempted prison breaks... and where rounded up and sent back to prison under the cloud of an even bleaker in-prison future, the very next time that this type of repeatedly abused individual breaks out of prison, he has become A Dedicated Kop Killer, determined -never- to be taken back to prison (when youre shot dead by a cop, or riddled to Swiss Cheese by a SWAT team, they take you to the morgue, right?). * Not even in the majority of the cases, but it applies often in cases where the young person happens to be an active, demonstrative (i.e., non-docile) personality. . Oscar Pistorius may have had a grave disability, already from early childhood, but, almost by definition, a child/ young person in that situation is gonna be coddled by parents, by friends of parents, by school teachers – by sports officials and local politicians – if only the individual expresses a desire to overcome their disability (indeed, CBS Evening Newss On the Road, Friday segment would wither on the vine without this type of hero/ heroine whom we all love to love, and can identify with!)... while no one loves, or identifies with — or even sympathizes with — the neglected, and maybe abused, mothers child who caught no breaks, ever, and who, not surprisingly, turned out bad, and from bad went to worse, thanks to our justice system, especially once firmly ensconced in the claws of our law unto itself prison system (most of the faces here belong to those who just needed psychological help, i.e., werent hardened Kop Killers, though some surely were, or were well on the way to becoming one youtube/watch?v=UAKyWrptujA)! That is why I can have ZERO SYMPATHY for the likes of an Oscar Pistorius, who had it all but who wanted more – such as maybe wanting to punish a girlfriend who refused to ignore the fact that the guy, when naked, actually had stumps, not normal legs.. or was Pistorius maybe just a control freak and Reeva wasnt into that?? – while at the same time, in contrast, I can have a great deal of sympathy for hardened criminals who were step-by-step hardened by a society that spends little time on helping those who fall through the cracks — wed much rather make a hero, however artificially we pump up the image, of a kid with terminal cancer, or of a kid without lower legs who expresses an interest in overcoming his handicap, so that he may compete as a sprinter in the medium-distance dashes, with the help of a prosthetic device. We fall for the saccharine success story, every time! Indeed, the Chamber of Commerce, our churches, our politicians and our network media outlets encourage us all to fall for that particular story, while ignoring the much less rosy, much more bitter story of our own failure as a society! ! ! !
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:00:16 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015