The Perfect Victim in an Unsociety, by Adam Lehrer
Adam Lehrer uses works by Sotos, DFW, McLuhan and others to dissect the function of mediatized images of victimhood and trauma
It’s often difficult to know what exactly the point of all the hysteria is, or even if there is one at all. But if I had to pinpoint just exactly why it is that this regime, the media, academia, and the activist industrial complex all swarm into a relentless hive mind around hyper-mediatized outrage images, it is this: the utter distortion and erosion of universal and eternal principles and values.
Values, of course, evolve and change. Some values, however, have remained fixed throughout human history. It is wrong to harm others unprovoked. It is wrong to lie. It is wrong to treat a human being as a slave. The right to defend yourself and others too is a universal value. The 19th Century American politician and first American science fiction writer George Tucker once stated that the right to self-defense is, “The first law of nature.”
I mean, it makes sense, right? If you’re a prehistoric and pre-civilization human minding your own business and learning to spark a fire, would you be expected to allow a maniac to come and cut your throat open for no reason? So, why has this become controversial? Why did Kyle Rittenhouse almost get thrown in prison for defending himself from a maniacal pedophile? And now, more pertinently, why are activists literally shutting down the NYC subway system to protest the freedom of Daniel Penny, the former marine who accidentally killed multi-felon Jordan Neely when the latter was menacing and terrorizing a subway car full of people? The answer, I believe, is to negate everything you’ve ever been taught to believe and to destroy the most fundamental components of the social contract.