Here s the truth. Generally speaking, humanistic voices are rarely found amid the din of race claiming, positioning, and occasional baiting. The competition for control of human perceptions, both helpful and harmful, is fierce. So when I hear people use their precious power to talk about their powerlessness I have to call foul. Some kind of deception is going on, much of it being self-deception.
Competition can be a fun and good thing.
Its rules are ambiguous at best. When viewed against a historical landscape riddled with conquest after conquest, notions of individual power and volition begin to sound dubious. This gives credibility to such concepts as chance, fate, luck, favoritism, racism, and oppression. But Maybe it s the information age, or our cultural globalization. Maybe it s the accelerating increase of available knowledge.