RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
August 30, 2018 at 8:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2018 at 9:05 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Importantly to the conversation..we are born as descendants of creatures who competed fiercely (and ruthlessly) with each other in groups based on rudimentary identification like "looks different from me and mine". To an extent, racism is built in, a feature that has since become a bug. That might also help to explain some portion of the allure and ability of normalizing language. We want it to be true. We want to be better than the Other. Our fortune is down to our merit, theirs to their laziness. We fear that they might take our things. We think that they eye us as suspiciously as we eye them. If they would just do what we do, they wouldn't be in their situation. It's on them, not us, and no one else. If they get anything that we don't get..or as much as we have (solely through our hard work, ofc..lol) then that's double plus ungood and unfair.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
