Victimhood Diet
“You can’t hold on to your victimhood and get on
with your life. You have to choose one.”
—Jordan Peterson
Most people who riot
were raised on a diet
of slights and oppressions
from past grievance sessions.
The wrongs made against them
were real and incensed them,
but scabs that keep peeling,
will never start healing.
These people assemble
with those they resemble,
who then sit comparing
how much they’re despairing.
While they sit convening,
their lives get more meaning
as they climb the lattice
of victimhood status.
Groups with these abjections
have got intersections,
and those most affected
are much more respected.
They share the strong feeling
that in every dealing,
there’s one who has power,
while all others cower.
They constantly clamor,
but do more than yammer,
about retribution
and redistribution.
Their victim-condition
gives them full permission
to make the world fairer
by unleashing terror.
Thus they have been tempted
to think they’re exempted
from legal constrictions,
and moral restrictions.
The hate they’ve been spewing
springs from what they’re chewing.
Their victimhood diet
is awful, don’t try it.
Warren Bonham is a private equity investor who lives in Southlake, Texas.
