sorry been gone.

With the new house and all, my time has been taken totally by that.

However, I'm back, kind of.

Here is a good article about the perils of collective thought from an excellent website http://www.eriksvane.com

It made me think of a strange phenomenon of modern man: we have substituted virtue with victimhood. Those that are victims are instantly granted benighted status and absolved of all responsibility of their actions. The problem with this inversion is that being a victim is a morally neutral position outside of the realm of which you were victimized. Holocaust victims are victims in their specific circumstance, but that doesn't mean that they are any more moral or immoral than the average person who has lived a prosaic life. It means that they deserve our sympathy and regard for enduring such a thing, but it doesn't mean that their values are any better or worse than anybody else's. Something to think about.