The Justice Paladinism Syndrome

Among the modern forms of opium masses consume, the strongest and most cherished ones are those that fuel the deeply human need of having a sense of significance and meaning in life. Vast swathes of people, young and old, thus rise, emotionally charged, vibrantly determined, and in their mind, courageously motivated, as paladins of justice against all the ills and evils of the modern western world.

Sadly, the reality is most of these paladins of justice are merely manufactured pawns of a greater power that benefits from their outrage and visceral contempt, employing them as tools to advance its standing in the unending battle between the great geopolitical forces of humankind.

Yes, it is clear that leftists have a problem with what they describe as "the existence of systems that privilege certain groups while disadvantaging others". This sentiment, however, is not exclusive to them. All decent people know there is injustice, pain and suffering in the world, and all try to work against it in the best way they see fit.

However, many leftists, especially in social media environments (facebook, twitter, reddit, etc.) merely drive their thinking by a very superficial understanding of the world, as it is blatantly easy to stand on a pedestal of self-perceived righteousness by advocating from an apparently clear-cut perspective for justice and equality.

The problem with justice-paladinism going rampant on the masses arises when such a phenomenon is blindly seen by its advocates as a pure, inner-born goal with no manipulation bias whatsoever, when in fact, there are, for those intent on looking and understanding the greater picture, many elements which point out how this is a mass phenomenon not grounded on some sort of social trascendent enlightenment or awakening, but a mere mass reaction to narratives fed to them successfully taking advantage of the massive lack of critical thinking skills and profound knowledge on the workings of things in the world.

See? Your argument for justifying the emotional backpack is, at the very least, highly lacking but, alas, represents what currently is being used as the progressivist ideological banner. What you mention is some kind of guilt for having enjoyed something which was freely granted to you. In fact, current generations enjoy the results obtained throughout an enormous amount of hardships endured by past generations. What's the guilt to be accounted for because of that?

The reality is, current generations are increasingly culturally devoid of circumstances to grant them with significant, hard-to-reach, greater-than-oneself goals in life (precisely because we're living in the epitome of past achievements), and people naturally crave for meaning in their lives. Add to that the blatant ignorance and erosion of traditional values currently rampant, and you get what you see around you: masses blindly believing some narrative that somehow the suffering in the world is our's, others', the elite's, the rich's, ... n's fault, but what matters, is that they, the enlightened, can put an end to world injustice, and must support what those narratives dictate them to do, and in so doing, they will have trascended the condition of guilt and transitioned into a worthy and righteous life.

In fact, one could argue that the great majority of people don't truly give a damn about the ones in suffering: all they really want is to aggrandize themselves throughout paladinism because they lack other compelling meaning in their lives.

The proof of this is overwhelmingly out there, as in the video links I have shared here, but it seems all you can see in them is some common and innocent example of nothing more than douchbaggery.

The reason why people are spoiled doesn't matter. What matters is that spoilage is necessarily accompanied by ignorance, and as Thomas Jefferson wisely said: "A nation that expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects what never was and never will be.".