Well said, Hasbeen.

There's just something about the mad left personality that revels in victimhood. They even compete with each other prove how much of a victim they are. It seems having a pedo as a teacher is the new black in victimhood. Did you give give a rats?

I'll be honest. I didn't.

I went to Catholic schools with brothers. If that stuff went on I never heard anything about it. I feel a bit ripped off. The way people carry on about it, maybe I just wasn't good looking enough!

Anyway, there are people who have real problems in life. People who lose a partner or child to cancer, kids who lose both parents to car accidents, or men who lose everything to an ex-wife who decides to 'move on'.

As that darling of the Left, Malcolm Fraser, once said, life wasn't meant to be easy.

I don't think Andee spends a lot of time among dumb people or has lived on a public housing estate, unfortunately not everyone is bright and capable of managing their own affairs properly.
Ye it's true there used to be more menial jobs to keep the chickenheads out of trouble, those jobs still exist but the cleaning and pot washing posts are held by engineering and accounting students from India and the Phillipines, presumably because they do a better job and require less supervision than some low IQ mutt from the outer suburbs.

This is powerful prose that economically captures the neoliberal nightmare so many people don't realise they're in.
The only problem is that rejecting the "loser" line is easier said than done. We are social animals and draw our very sense of legitimacy from our peers. The vast majority is so integrated and unquestioning of 'the way we live now', that nothing else is even imaginable. The 'loser' is in a tough spot indeed; it's hard to rationalise a radical stance when the tide of society runs against you. No matter how strong your convictions, real confidence is garnered either by popular or institutional approval. Until 'losers' band together in sizeable numbers, they'll continue to feel the stigma of being eccentrics and pariahs.
Thus my own dismal conclusion that progressivism, beyond tokenism, is doomed to fail. A society can only change radically by violence, as Marx foresaw, or by generational collapse, wherafter the new generation is finally free of the old illusions. The sad thing is that after the collapse they'll be precious little to build a new order with.

The whole quote goes, life wasn't mean't to be easy, it was meant to be delightful!
I spent most of my formative years in orphanages and foster homes.
And I had to fight my own battles, which started we me at 6, fighting a 15 year old and winning; and picked for countryside footy representative honors at 9.
Most of those homes were in the country, and required a very long walk to school in bare feet on gravel roads, and in the dead of winter. "Undernourished" I developed chilblains on both feet, which made the ordeal even more so.
Did I bitch or complain, even when "asked" to pick spuds or man a commercial polisher aged just 7?
No, as usual I stuck my head down and got on as best I could, even though sharing text books with a kid with myopia, and his head always in the way of those important words!
A pedophile science teacher never touched me, albeit, gave me six of the best every day he taught me.
Even so, unbowed and unbroken, I found science a very interesting subject.
The army gave me a chance and I studied medicine, and flew through my final exams, where I averaged 98%, as my passing mark, which broke a previously unassailable 70 year record.
So no, like most of my contemporaneous underprivileged, I did the best with what I was given and might I add, with absolutely no help from the taxpayer, or very much basic christian charity.
Everyone has an opinion, but particularly those who have never ever really done it tough, but were given every possible advantage, and judging from their comments, want to save privilege, or even just a fair go, for those who need neither.
There's nothing wrong with my work ethic, or that of a very smart guy running his heart out day in day out behind a garbage truck.
Who knows what he or I might have achieved, even given Hasbeen's very modest but success inducing start.
Were that we all could have had just that much!
Rhrosty.

Rhrosty, that's bloody luxury:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Rhosty: "There's nothing wrong with my work ethic"

But what is your work ethic? Why did you, a smart lad, knuckle under? Based on what, have you continued to support a system that's so patently unfair (not to mention exploitative and destructive). The Protestant work ethic, wretched as it was, is no more, so why do you kowtow?