Friday, February 6, 2009

Why We Prefer Victimhood to Responsibility

Here's the article that triggered this blog. The headline reads: "Phelps needs less idle time, no more."

Ug.

As a nation, do we no longer realize that it is not government's (or governing bodies of sports) role to take responsibility for our choices -- it's ours?

News flash to the numbskullian George Vecsey who wrote the article: If Phelps has taken genuine ownership of his poor choices, he will realize what he needs to do to move forward and he will do it. If that means 16 hours in the pool practicing, fine. If that's more down time, fine.

How often do we inadvertently fall to false victimhood, simply because it's a HUGE blind spot in our culture? 

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