Mystery solved

I no longer follow Deacon Greydanus.  For the same reason I no longer bother with Mark Shea and many other of their ilk.  But on my own page, different posts will sometimes show up on a particular section from people I have followed to people I don't even know.  Well, this came by the other day:

Yep.  The Rocca Maggiore fortress is in Italy, in Assisi.  As in St. Francis of.  Meaning they're in Italy.  Why is this a thing?  Because I've long maintained that ever since John Lennon beckoned us to imagine no possessions from within his sprawling multi-million dollar English estate, the idea of Proxy Martyrdom has become a capstone of modern activism.

That is, words speak louder than actions.  And as long as it's other schmucks who take one for my righteousness, it's the price I'm willing to pay.  Why should I give up for the cause?  So as I watched the rise of the BLM/DEI driven group identity based treatment of people, it puzzled me why so many white Americans were happy with movements that basically say the only good white person is  a crushed in the mud white person.

Until I noticed a trend.  That is, on the street level this is often championed by younger white liberals who have been born and raised in this godless, pointless, meaningless society we've bequeathed them.  It's their way of finding purpose and meaning.  But they're not the only ones.  On the other end, I see a whole lot of ancient, gray haired hippies with their own vocations and professions happily in the rearview mirror and likely not impacted by the cheers of fewer white people and white men getting anywhere in society.

But it isn't always those two groups.  There are your average family types, like the good deacon.  Which puzzled me.  Until I also noticed something.  I came to realize that if you show me a working age family man or woman who is white and embraces this madness, I'll show you someone who is a globetrotter who sends his kids to private schools and universities.  That is, someone who has the money to make sure his kids have as many chances as possible not to be the ones whose opportunities are compromised due to skin color and other group identities.

Now I know virtually nothing about Greydanus.  I know he is a nationally known film critic.  I know that he is an ordained deacon with formal theological training who teaches at a Catholic school.  He reminded his readers of that a lot.  I also know his wife is in the medical field, but I don't know in what capacity.  And I know they homeschooled their own kids, and also sent them to private colleges.  But now I know they also take vacations to Italy.  

Meaning that they can't guarantee their own kids won't get it in the neck by the very demographic driven activism that he now supports in his full backing of the Left.  But they at least have the means to give them a chance others with less means can in no way ensure.  

Remember, Jesus didn't say if someone takes your cloak, then get someone else to give their tunic as well. Yet so many modern causes of righteousness seem founded on not having to give a brass farthing of personal investment or sacrifice for the cause while simultaneously claiming the moral high ground for embracing the same cause.  Like saying I'm anti-racist.  Big deal.  That cost me what?  Eleven keystrokes.  But doesn't it make me feel righteous!  Holy. Saintly.  The World says so, it must be true.  

But that's not how we should determine our priorities and causes.  Not that everything I agree with should force me to storm the beaches and take a bullet for the team.  But when virtually nothing I do costs me anything, but often costs my neighbor everything, it's time to rethink such offers of assurance for my moral superiority and righteousness.  Since by now, we should see what happens to a society where people can ascend the mountain of moral superiority through nothing other than posturing and words.  It doesn't take them long to find other causes to feed that sense of superiority, especially if everyone else has to pay the piper.