August 23, 2006
Guilt vs. Gratitude
Guilt pervades the mindset of the left. Whether consciously or unconsciously, there are too many who believe that the success of the "Western" world is because of our past involvements with slavery and colonialism. Therefore, any type of moral equivalency becomes excusable because of past sins of the West. For example, Abu Ghraib become synonymous with Nazi genocide. Self-defense by Israelis becomes inexcusable. Noam Chomsky can excuse the genocide of millions of Cambodians. The list goes on and on.
Alfred Nobel was perhaps the man who made guilt an official coda of the West. He was horrified to read in his obituary, mistakenly published when his brother died, that he was the man "who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before" due to his inventing dynamite. He then established the Nobel prizes, the most important of which being the Peace Prize.
If we look at the winners of the Nobel Prize in the 21st century, one sees the guilt factor being played with no bearing in reality for a most of its recipients.
2000: Kim Dae-Jung is awarded the Peace Prize for engaging North Korea in peace talks. Later, it was discovered that he had to pay the North Koreans to make the meeting happen. The Sunshine Policy in no way advanced the cause of peace in Asia, and North Korea continues to advance its criminal policies and continues to starve its own people.
2001: The United Nations and Kofi Annan are awarded the Peace Prize for their work in making a more peaceful world. That this work includes UN Peace Keeping forces acting as hostages for terrorist groups and prostituting the people they are supposed to protect does not seem to apply. The UN perpetuates the status quo -- and that is not a good thing, yet the UN continues to be heralded as an agency that will save the world from the excesses of the West. The UN is yet another example of the leftwing guilt factor working overtime.
2002: Jimmy Carter -- the epitome of guilt. This is a man who, in the interest of "human rights," demanded the lame but compariatively benign Shah of Iran to hand over power to the Ayatollah Khomeni. He advised the Shah's top military advisers to step down...they listened...and all but one were murdered by the Ayatollah when he took power. Afterward, Carter stood wringing his hands while American hostages were held for 444 days by radical Iranian Islamists...hostages that were not released until shortly after Ronald Reagan took office. This one act caused massive destabilization in the Middle East, and anti-Westernism, anti-Americanism, became the rule of the day. Human rights have not improved in Iran or elsewhere in the Middle East...no thanks to Jimmy Carter.
2003: Shirin Ebadi seems to have actually won the Nobel Peace Prize for the right reasons.
2004: Wangari Maathai also seems to have also won the Nobel Peace Prize for the right reasons. However, upon receiving the award, she went right after Western guilt by claiming that HIV was a bio-engineered weapon released in Africa to punish blacks.
2005: The International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei receive the Peace Prize. This is an example of a completely ineffectual bureaucrat and bureaucracy that have accomplished nothing. ElBaradei sees no problem with Iran going nuclear -- because the greater crime is the fact that America and other Western nations already have nuclear weapons. The fact that Iran is more likely than Western nations to push the button without a qualm does not enter into his thinking.
The Nobel Peace Prize was brought about as a result of guilt, and is awarded with the same intentions. The UN is about guilt. Amnesty International and Greenpeace are about guilt. And, since guilt can be manipulated by the unscrupulous, the results have been disastrous.
The problem is one of intent. There should be prizes for gratitude. Instead of wallowing in pity and self-condemnation, we should highlight those among us deserving of our gratitude instead of wallowing in a miasma of guilt. By such a criteria, who would be truly deserving of praise and who of condemnation?
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