Hypocrisy 101

Hypocrisy is rampant in society.  Many liberals try to espouse that all people should be accepted as they are—or how they define themselves to be—and turn around and hate on billionaires.  On the other side of the fence, you have argument made that gay marriage will have a deleterious effect on the moral fabric of society; but these same moralists are standing for a free market economy which bleeds the poor and working classes.  All sides of the political spectrum hold bias and exert hypocrisy.

I can only imagine a culture which would fully support a non-biased society.  And I am uncertain of how excited I’d be to live in such a utopia.  What I believe, unfortunately, is that things in our society which we do not care for have their place. 

What is unfortunate is that we live in a world of terrible injustice.  Injustice that goes beyond what I myself can even grasp.  I’ve been on the short end of the stick, here in the United States, for years, battling schizophrenia—but feel as though I’m soft.  As I am sitting here, writing about hypocrisy, people in China are working for three dollars a week.  I feel that being here, living comfortably, I am part of the problem.

I believe that bias and hypocrisy emerge out of a learned response to vulnerability.  People need their vulnerabilities to have compassion for others.  But what we’ve done in our society is turn our natural instincts which once served the proliferation of our species into tactics which serve to protect our politics.  Reason has become a tool for manipulation and compassion a tool for exploitation. 

My argument in this blog post has, itself, been somewhat stilted.  I’m much more for gay marriage and freedom of the working and under classes than I am for a free market economy.  What I want is for there to be no right or wrong; but I can not feel that in my heart.  I want to know that all people are basically good—but I have my doubts.  What I can believe is that even the evil doers of society serve some good within humanity; their good may be, unfortunately, much less significant than the injustices that they create.