Running a budgetary deficit is not the only way for one generation to lead an excessive life at the expense of future generations because there are more ways by which a generation can live irresponsibly. For example, it has been demonstrated that abusing the environment is a way of living that will be paid for by future generations. Another way is to tolerate an ongoing injustice that is sure to blow up in the face of future generations. To understand this part we need to recall a few things about the system of justice.
The universal symbol of justice is a blindfolded woman holding up a scale which is an elegant metaphor that tells a simple story. It says that justice requires a recognition of the fact that equality must prevail among the people regardless as to who is being judged. Of course, justice is dispensed in a court of law but this is where we go to seek it if and when we do not receive justice in the course of everyday living. Thus, the real story behind the woman holding up the scale is that we must all be treated equally to start with.
When in the real World things do not go as they should and a dispute arises, it is never about the requirement that we be regarded as equal before the law because this point has been settled. Rather it is about the question as to whether or not justice can be rendered in full with every case. The complication in achieving this goal stems from the fact that the situations where justice is sought come in different categories, and this makes it impossible to measure justice by one and the same yardstick.
One category where justice is sought is that which separates the individual right from the group right. In this category, it is easier for the Courts to render full justice in matters where an individual is concerned than when a group is concerned. This is because it is easier to assess the damage done to a single individual and prescribe a remedy than do the same thing where whole a group of people is involved.
Another category where justice is sought is that which separates the fundamental human rights we obtain by right of birth from the acquired rights we obtain by entitlement. The human rights are written into the Constitution of every country as well as the UN Charter. They range from the right to live in dignity to the right of seeing one's life protected by the state. As for the acquired rights, they range from the promises written into the social contract which every country draws up for its citizens to the contracts which individuals draw up with one another to the contracts which corporations enter into and so on.
The most difficult legal challenge facing the American system today is that which comes under the rubric of Affirmative Action. This approach seeks to remedy an injustice that was done to a group of people who were enslaved because of the Black color of their skin. After a long debate it was deemed reasonable to assume that all the descendants of those slaves have suffered damages to one degree or another.
It then became immediately clear that it will be difficult to fully right the wrong done in this case because the original White culprits who enslaved the Black population are dead and cannot be called upon to pay for what they did. However, their descendants are here and it was reasonable to assume that they benefited from the situation indirectly if not by directly inheriting the ill gotten gains. But this is not where the story of compensation ended; it is where it began to take shape.
That is because the descendants of the culprits had mixed with the descendants of the other White people who had nothing to do with slavery, as well as with the Latinos, the Asians and the other Blacks who came to America after slavery was abolished. Consequently, it was deemed that none of these people can be held directly responsible for what happened even though all of them may now be benefiting from the situation, if only because the potential competition from Blacks has been reduced.
To restore the situation to a perfect balance in such cases it would have been necessary to accurately assess the amount due by every individual who may have benefited from slavery and accurately assess the amount owed to every individual who may have been wronged by slavery and do the math. Since this was impossible to accomplish, a collective sort of compensation was negotiated according to which wealth and privileges are to be transferred from one group to the other. And this is what Affirmative Action is mandated to oversee.
Time will tell whether or not that lofty goal will be achieved to the satisfaction of everyone. In the meantime, the lesson to be learned here is that the wealth and comfort of the generations that tolerated slavery is being paid for by the current generation and will continue to be paid for by the generations to come. Thus, to prevent something like this from recurring, we must understand how that situation happened in the first place then put down the safeguards which will prevent similar situations from taking root.
That situation started with the belief in the false premise that Blacks were inferior to Whites. In turn the belief resulted in the failure of society to acknowledge the birthright of Blacks and in the failure of government to extend to them the same protection the other citizens were enjoying. And everything wicked followed from there. Today, we have a single word to mean a false premise attributed to a people identified by a shared characteristic. That word is stereotype whose use is increasingly becoming a warning signal that troubled waters lay ahead.
It is not too difficult to see why this is so in light of the American experience. We saw how one generation holding on to a stereotype robbed the current generation of its wellbeing yet the experience is not preventing the stereotyping of people today. In fact, while the present generation is far from done paying for the mistakes of the past, someone is trying to add to the resulting tragedy by duplicating the performance although in a slightly different way. To understand this, we look more deeply into the stereotype phenomenon.
There are different types of stereotype. There is the destructive stereotype which is the belief in the absolute wickedness of a group of people, the exaggerated stereotype which is the belief in the absolute goodness of another group of people, and the dual stereotype which describes one group of people as being perfect in every way at the same time as it describes a competing group as being evil in every way.
That dual variety of stereotype is being advanced today to portray the Arabs and the Muslims as being wall to wall demons at the same time as it portrays the Israelis and the Jews as being wall to wall angels. Some people argue that this is no different from the internment of the Japanese during the Second World War. Others say it is the same as the subtle discrimination which was practiced with regard to the Jews, the Poles, the Irish and the other races at an earlier time. I say no, the situations are not the same, and the comparison is a false one.
On the one hand, the Japanese, the Jews, the Poles, the Irish and all the others were subjected to a destructive kind of stereotyping which was the natural outcome of human fears, frailty and ignorance. The lasting impact on the nation was comparable to that of an accident or a tribal mini war. The situations were dealt with at an individual level and were resolved to the satisfaction of most participants.
On the other hand, what the Arabs and the Muslims are being subjected to is a dual stereotyping. It is the deliberate design and execution of a scheme masterminded by the devil himself. The attacks on the Arabs and the Muslims are a crime against humanity designed by the Jewish Establishment which lifted ideas from the blueprints of slavery in America and the blueprints of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.
They combined the worst of the two in one grand blueprint to shamelessly do in the open what the Nazis did in secret as the latter understood how shameful that was. The Jewish Establishment does not even come close to understanding that to claim religious supremacy is no more acceptable than to claim racial supremacy, made worse by the fact that they are doing it shamelessly. They do not see that if they keep doing what they are doing, they will make the expression Jewish religion more dirty than the expression Aryan race.
Still, there is a difference between what the Nazis did and what the American Jewish Establishment is doing. The difference resembles that between a criminal who botched a bank robbery and a serial killer who taunts society because of an injury he says he sustained as a child. And with a false claim like this, the Jewish Establishment has managed to mobilize the media and the security apparatus of America, and to use them as tools to execute their demonic scheme. This will leave an impact on the future generations of America that no words can ever describe.