What the Best Places in America Have in Common
5th August 2023
This article offers an appalling insight into the proglodyte mind.
Income is one vital indicator of well-being, but it is not the only one: Things like health outcomes and social mobility matter too. That’s why we should shift our focus from poverty to disadvantage. Disadvantage is a more useful term than poverty because we aren’t just talking about income—we’re trying to capture the complexity of a person’s life chances being hindered by multiple circumstances. Disadvantage is more accurate because it implies an injustice. People are being held back—unfairly.
It’s not enough to just describe the position of the poor. It must be described in a way that blames someone else. “People are being held back–unfairly.” The obvious assumption is that if it weren’t for that unjust, unfair ‘holding back’, they’d be just as ‘advantaged’ as everybody else. Are they morons? Doesn’t matter. Are they lazy? Doesn’t matter. Are they vicious? Doesn’t matter. Are they feckless?Doesn’t matter. Do they come from a culture that encourages crime, violence, and venality? Doesn’t matter. They are ‘disadvantaged’ and therefore victims. They have no agency. Their life circumstances have no relation to what they do or don’t do. They are ‘disadvantaged’ and therefore victims, like a species of fish or insect.
Go ahead and read the whole thing; it reads like anthropologists discussing a species of animal, governed by instinct and unable to exert any control on their own lives. That’s what people outside the Crust look like to the Anointed: A different species that must be controlled and manipulated, whether they like it or not.
Disgusting.