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<p class="nav"><span class="nav-left">Listed under <a href="/heartiste-2012.html">Heartiste: 2012</a>.</span><span class="nav-right"><a href="/theme.html">Theme</a></span></p>
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<p>From the <a href="https://heartiste.org/2012/08/06/the-ideology-of-powerlessness/" target="_blank">original article</a> on August 6, 2012. Author: <a href="https://heartiste.org/" target="_blank">Chateau Heartiste</a>.</p>
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<p>In <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120810070236/http://glpiggy.net/2012/08/03/the-newsroom-and-gun-control/" target="_blank">a post</a> over at GLPiggy about “The Soapboxroom” and Aaron Sorkin’s deliberate distortion of gun control statistics, a thought occurs about the mentality of the type of people whose natural reflex is to default to excusing thugs and disarming potential victims.</p>
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<p>This mentality is the ideology of powerlessness. When faced with a threat, a person with this child-like psychological profile instinctually resorts to finding ways to strip power from himself and others, and to elevate helplessness to a noble virtue. People who think this way share commonalities with equalists, some liberals, leftists and women. Stockholm Syndrome is an extreme manifestation of the powerlessness ideology.</p>
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<p>Those pointing to statistics purporting to demonstrate the downsides of power — in this case, the power inherent in owning a gun and its implication in accidental shootings — miss the point: the downsides of power are still better than the downsides of powerlessness. Do you want to leave your fate in the hands of the powerful, who often don’t have your interests in heart, or do you want power for yourself so that you may exert a measure of control over your own life?</p>
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<p>Anyone who wants more control and power over the trajectory and outcome of his life needs to avoid powerlessness peddlers like the plague.</p>
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