WhenWeAreQueen

Life isn’t fair. 

Max is having a hard time with that one right now.  He isn’t his brother, and he can’t get by with some of the things his brother can.  He has to adhere to a strict sleep schedule (chronic insomnia plagues him otherwise), and he can’t eat anything he wants (his dad’s metabolism, not his mother’s).  He wants the rules for living to be exactly the same for him and Tobie (and for some reason, for Charlie, who is four years older); and he is struggling ferociously against the inequities he perceives.  I’ve chosen not to shield him from this particular horrible life lesson by force-fitting all three boys to one regimen; he will have to come to terms with life since he can’t make life come to terms with him.

Washington is filled with people who refuse to accept that life isn’t fair—or more precisely, they know it isn’t (and they don’t really care, not deep down, because they came out on the up side), but they have discovered all the power to be had by pretending to the less fortunate that they can force life to be fair, if they just have a little more money and a little more control.  We call people who refuse to accept the basic unfairness of life victims and our politicians have declared victimhood a spiritual calling, one which all too many are ready to follow.  Now we have an administration run by ex-patriates of various Angry Studies departments busying themselves with activities designed to make life equally unfair for everyone—themselves excepted, of course. 

The rhetoric issuing from the Obama administration is practically indistinguishable from the dribble one can find in just about every liberal arts department in any university in the country—predictable, banal and warmed-over mush about social justice and capitalist hegemony.  None of the Obamists have lived long enough in the real world to learn that none of that stuff actually works, in the sense of producing a world that sane people want to inhabit.  They share the fatal flaw of every other Utopian—they think that the only thing missing every other time someone else tried to enforce fairness was their particular genius.  That’s the only explanation for someone actually coming up with the solipsistic babble of “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” 

I say this, but I think that at least Obama—and probably quite a few of his closest cronies—really do know that life isn’t fair, isn’t meant to be fair, and can’t be made fair (not in this world).  They’re just the ultimate cynics, manipulating the naifs who buy the dreamy equality bullshit and ruthlessly suppressing the realists who don’t want to be controlled by the state.  Obama and his ilk are simply taking advantage of the adolescent angst of millions of people who never came to grips with the fact that life isn’t fair.