The Liberal Version of "Try Your Best"

In real life, I don't exactly shy away from discussing bio-realism, though I don't use the same tone as used here. Occasionally, someone will catch on, as when one friend pointedly asked me, "you're into eugenics, aren't you?" But usually people respond with surprise and mild disgust, often accusing me of lacking decency. On more than one occasion, the other person has said something like, "so you just go up to random fat people on the street and call them ugly?" I ask how exactly did expressing obvious truths become tantamount to emotionally and personally abusing strangers.

When people have asked the above question, they imply that I'm basically an asshole who simply wants to demean others for their failures. But that's not at all true; primarily, I don't want public policy to reflect a deluded notion of man nor do I want our culture to refrain from celebrating the undeniably valuable. My criticism of polite society's lies does not mean I want to mock or belittle those that don't measure up. In fact, none of us "measure up" in every aspect of life, so such a position would be rather self-defeating.

In the end, the problem here reduces to how the left has perverted the following childhood maxim:

Try your best and that's all that matters.

This actually used to mean something. We used to demand that society adhere to this simple, yet sagacious idea. After all, if we pursue success with everything we have, then we should be proud. We can only change our desire and our work ethic, not the basic gifts of birth. Contrary to popular belief, we don't all have a genius inside. Maybe I lean towards "everyone wins" liberal here as opposed to accepting the sterile notion of conservative success, but oh well.

Yet, the crusading liberals weren't satisfied with this. Perhaps due to their listlessness, their entitled attitude, their own gnawing failures, or their unending quest to dismantle everything sacred, liberals changed this slogan to something along the lines of:

Try your best, but if you fail, we'll find someone to blame.

The external cause of failure shows up in essentially every aspect of life, reflecting the notion that society hold no one responsible for their actions. We have murderers using the bad childhood defense, New York helicopter moms suing preschools for future lost educational opportunities, fat acceptance harpies railing against popular culture, and feminists blaming men for just about anything. Though the left didn't stop there (do they ever?); they went a step further to something like:

Don't bother trying because whatever they want you do is racist, classist, sexist, ageist, homophobic, intolerant, bigoted, insensitive, and/or sizeist.

So now, instead of trying your best and taking pride in your personal triumphs and hard work, we have a generation of entitled pansies blaming their failures on some nefarious and always amorphous third party. And perhaps it makes them feel good for awhile, but I think they all understand, deep down inside, the ruse they play on themselves. Finally, it's ironic that the left tacitly rejects working hard. After all, they believe hard work and only hard work determines success. Funny that they only espouse such a belief in certain situations, e.g. fatties have a higher weight baseline but everyone can score above average in school.