The Politics of Guilt and Contempt

The new social order imposes its politics on social 

communities given to compassion and ownership 

of past wrongs to personally agonize over shameful

events long before their existence when misfortune

tormented victims of an unenlighted society with the

imposition of conditions favouring those like themselves

 while condemning others not of their proud heritage 

to humble servitude conditioning the lesser-favoured 

placed precisely where those of casual privilege could 

make best use of them. That time now long gone the

former servants now serving in authoritative positions 

of pride and honour but no matter. The vast bulk still 

smart over past denial of human rights while living 

amongst the great mass disappointed like themselves in 

life's promise of freedom and prosperity to confront the 

system that degraded them historically counting among

the transgressors all those whose ancestors took full 

advantage of the temper of the  times holding that some 

were born to slavery and others entitled to own them as 

slaves. The now-penitent former overseers obligingly 

prostrate themselves in guilt for past transgressions for 

the prospect of ingratiating  themselves with their accusers. 

While those once the object of abject misery sniff with 

the disdain of those gaining an upper hand and with venom 

well aforethought  reverse that long gone formula of master 

and slave acting with the authority of the victorious in the

sanctimonious entitlement to confer contempt on the 

sniveling mass begging forgiveness for blameless faults.