{"id":9228,"date":"2021-02-07T14:53:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2021-02-07T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T19:18:38","slug":"conformity-isnt-it-easy-to-be-a-rebel-activist-when-we-are-on-a-governmental-payroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/02\/07\/conformity-isnt-it-easy-to-be-a-rebel-activist-when-we-are-on-a-governmental-payroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Conformity: Isn\u2019t it easy to be a rebel\/activist when we are on a governmental payroll?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We read the same pieces of so-called journalistic\nopinions almost recycled, word by word, from one mainstream media to the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We see and hear intellectuals and public figures of\nour country repeating the same mantras of trendy ideas. Some seem convinced.\nSome sound like machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We read and hear university professors, writing in\ntheir profiles that they are \u201cwhite settler scholars<\/em>\u201d living and working\n\u201con the unceded and unconquered land of<\/em>\u2026\u201d or \u201c\u2026\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hear sport associations and scholars in Montr\u00e9al\ntotally forgetting their own history and repeating clich\u00e9s or mantras that are\nnot even accurate, but who cares? Science and facts do not matter nowadays.\nOnly ideologies and select lived experiences are important. It does not even\nmatter if the \u201clived experience\u201d truly took place sometimes. What matters is a\nwhole mob using it to destroy and an artist\u2019s reputation or cancel an author,\netc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then ironically and hypocritically they tell us\nthat conspiracy ideas are to be banned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus would have said:\u201cWhy do you see the speck\nthat is in your brother\u2019s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own\neye?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other terms, why the double-standards and why can\u2019t\nwe see our own contradictions? Why do we project on others our own faults or\nwhy we only focus on theirs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some scholars go out of their way to tell us how bad \u201cwhiteness\u201d\nis. A weird term, isn\u2019t it? We should ban whole fields, such as Classics\nbecause of it. Thankfully, there are voices of reason who still dare to\nquestion and write before being perhaps cancelled one day (https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-the-classics-d60<\/a>).\nIf Bambi may, she would like to thank her good friend\/relative who shared the\nabove. Some people do not see the absurdity. Some people already have a\njustification handy for each absurdity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are sadly becoming a society too dependent on our\ngovernment. Is this ideal in life for creativity or entrepreneurship? All what\nwe do is conform and repeat. Re-repeat and conform\u2026 whilst calling ourselves\nactivists or rebels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does anyone still recall the wise words of Mr. John F.\nKennedy\u2019s: \u201cConformity is the jailor of freedom and the enemy of growth<\/em>\u201d.\nWhat would he have thought about all this had he still been alive, Bambi\nwonders? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what about Mr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? Chances\nare he would be turning in his grave now after seeing what is happening to his\ndream? Yes, his\nbeautiful dream that his \u201cfour little children will one day\nlive in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but\nby the content of their character\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now character and merit are being presented as being the\nproduct of privilege (some parents on some American school boards call the\nstandards of merit and excellence racist. Does that make any sense to you, if\nyou happen to be a parent killing yourself to provide an education to your\nchildren?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, in Mr. King\u2019s country and in Bambi\u2019s, society\nand political elites want us to only focus on our skin colour\/hue and interpret\neverything through the lens of race, racism, anti-racism, and \u201cracialization\u201d. But\nisn\u2019t it ironically racist when we are too obsessed with race to begin with?\nPlus, do you really believe that this will bring more justice to the daily life\nof ordinary Americans and Canadians? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To conclude this post, with an example that may seem\ntoo exaggerated to you. To describe the irony of the conformity of our\nsociety\u2019s elite on the government\u2019s payroll and the hypocrisy\/uselessness of\nthis phenomenon (despite any individual good intentions), imagine the\nfollowing: Canada is Lebanon and the governmental elite there is like our\nactivists here: From the morning to the evening and in each meeting, they\ndenounce the state\u2019s corruption and the Hezbollah\u2019s hegemony on the Lebanese\ninstitutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had you been a Lebanese citizen not connected to neither the government nor to powerful militias (the majority), do you take them seriously? Perhaps you would do, if you prefer to live in denial (comas may be more reassuring). If you don\u2019t, you may perhaps be living in a parallel world to survive (disconnected from politics and the news). Who knows? If you can afford it, you may be spending your time in the lineups in front of embassies, dreaming of immigrating. If Canada is one of your dream destinations, to make an informed decision, you may wish to educate yourself about what Bambi is describing in this post. It may not match the romanticized idea you may have about our luckily still beautiful yet deteriorating country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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