"You're always complaining!"
When ingratitude is dignity
No, I won’t be grateful for the state’s micro-concessions; pretentious, meaningless performances to appease the naive masses, and to regain their misplaced trust.
The gratitude of the slave
You’ve heard it before: that with every concession the government makes, we should be thankful and not whine and complain. Only doomers with a fetish for misery can’t ever be satisfied, right?
Wrong.
Your greatest abusers are the ones trying to convince you to be grateful despite your sorrows, especially the sorrows they inflict on you.
This is the point of a meaningless micro-concession or limited hangout by your ruling class: to appease you, thus gaining your trust and willing subservience to it, so that it can carry on even greater abuses against you soon after. It cannot abuse you without your permission.
If you are appeased and grateful when your rapist hands you a towel to wipe yourself after he’s had his way with you, you’re not being positive or grateful; you’re being a fucking sucker-for-punishment retard who almost deserves what he got.
You cannot be appeased and grateful when your abuser reduces or even stops his abuse. Why? Because you did not earn anything, and you certainly got no restitution nor recognition for your suffering. Your abuser didn’t make amends; he only slowed down his abuses. And you’re grateful to him for that?
Are you retarded?
All these Trump worshippers are currently squealing in ecstasy at the possibility that the government, supposedly under its new puppet, would somehow undo its evils. And they call this justice, and expect you to be grateful for it.
Really? If your rapist stops raping you, then you’re good? You can be happy now? If your mugger stops mugging you, should you be grateful and thankful to him for stopping? If the murderer of your children stops murdering your children, then you should be appeased and rested in complacency that he has decided to stop killing more of your kids?
Are you fucking retarded? You pitiful, happy, rationalising slave…
You cannot be grateful to your abusers for their pauses between abuses.
The wife-beater’s wife cannot be grateful to her piece-of-shit husband for the intervals of calm between beatings. If anything, this subservient and unassertive stance of hers is what enables him, encouraging him to keep doing what he’s doing, since nobody is holding him accountable. Not only that, but her gratitude is his reward for abusing her. Fancy that.
And this is the method by which abusers get away with it. They loosen your collar every now and then, and you are so naively grateful for that meaningless pretentious concession that you will never even think to want to eliminate the entire collar.
The bottom line
Have some dignity, for fuck’s sake. Do not be grateful to your abuser for momentarily holding back his abuses. If you sympathise with those who hurt you just for slowing down a bit, then you don’t deserve better. Stockholm syndrome is for suckers for punishment. And then you are the one who should never complain.
Forgiving those unwilling to make themselves worthy of forgiveness only invites more abuse against you because it rewards abuse. Being ungrateful to those who never bothered to earn your forgiveness is your last remaining dignity. If you forgo that, then…
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