The Age of Victimization

Modern Western society, lacking the values that laid its foundation, carries with it the most destructive and imperious habits, the habits of domination. The continuous and increasingly recurrent victimization of society shows, in its maximum splendor, the modern rejection towards freedom, towards the will, and above all, the rejection towards the very nature of man.

For in the same way that a free man can't be a victimizer, since freedom inherently implies a moral force that pushes man to do good, a free man can't be, under any circumstances, a victim, since a free man is responsible for their actions, and subsequently, their results.

When a modern citizen assumes the role of victim, which is, in the most regrettable way, excessively common, he inevitably rejects his freedom. Modernity is, without a doubt, the age of victimization, ergo, the age in which the natural freedom of man is rejected and denied.

When a person resigns himself to the circumstances that surround him, he surrenders, when he is incapable, renounces the responsibility that he has over himself, in such a way that he stops being free, because freedom consists in being owners of our own life. When a person does not own himself, that is, he is no longer responsible for himself, someone else is responsible for that person, which inevitably means that someone takes over (owns) that person.

Let me be more specific, because this is a point of vital importance to analyze at the time of doing the autopsy of the West, which lies recumbent and agonizing in modernity, and which is, at the very least, on the verge of death.

It may seem trivial, but the fact that people today blame their failures on something external, be it the heteropatriarchy, institutional racism, capitalism, the system, imperialism, foreign intervention, government, society, etc., it is the main one, and probably the only important cause, by which modern man is becoming less free, and the State is getting bigger.

When a person, away from his own personal responsibility, chooses to victimize himself, he is overwhelmed by fate, and accepting his inability to change his circumstances, he resorts to an external one to do so. Servant or slave? What a dilemma!.. If you don't own yourself, someone else does, and that someone is, almost every time, and in the best of all the fateful cases, the State. "All kneel before the great leviathan."

Everyone who lives at the expense of the State, whether thanks to its regulations, its subsidies or its subventions, is not a parasite, as many extremists would like to say, but if it is a servant, since he depends on the State for his daily life. He is not a free citizen.

The increase of victims in modern society, of the "oppressed minorities", and of those subjected to the State, increases the size of the State at the same time, since each time someone chooses to go before a State institution, it is voting with their actions for a bigger State.

This condition of artificial servitude, of men increasingly dependent on the State, of men increasingly less responsible, of men increasingly weak, only demonstrates the fateful malaise that Western society suffers; Marxism

These ideas of social irresponsibility are not new at all, but come from the oldest and stubborn Marxism. One only needs to see the examples that history gives us about the Marxist countries; We will see poor people but not because of their citizens, but because of the mistakes made by the State; we will see a people that lack responsibility, because this is monopolized by the State; we will see a people who don't address themselves, because it is not made up of owners, but by subjects or properties; we will see a village of sheep, guided by shepherds of flocks.

I am not saying that modern victims are ideological Marxists, I don't even think they are consciously seeking Marxism, but it is, without a doubt, what they are generating.

Modern victims are victims, but of victimhood itself, ergo, victims of their thinking and their being. Of that Western citizen who alleges that he is a victim of the system, because his race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, etc., is oppressed by the system or by society, he is not mistaken, only that he erred in the historical period. Of the citizen of any part of the world who claims to have fewer opportunities for the same conditions, remember that in the first instance, it is man who creates opportunities, and not society or the State. Of those citizens of the universe who claim to be a victim for anything, remember that it is only because he wants it.

Freedom does not consist in having the conditions so that everything goes well, and much less in having all the opportunities, freedom is that nobody prevents you from creating your conditions and your opportunities. You are free in both the good and the bad. If you do not accept responsibility for your actions in your freedom, you simply reject it. The people who seek that the State intercede for them to give them "better conditions", are people who accepted that freedom is not for them, after all, slaves have their food assured, and the free men no.

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