AN INSIGNIFICANT STORY, BY AN INSIGNIFICANT MAN
Sometimes, when one is not of the crowd or clique, one represents a target more easily used as a scapegoat for the failings of others. It is difficult for the victim to reveal these failings because he is seen to be the cause of the problems caused by others, due to a biased process of finger pointing. You "can't fight city hall" comes to mind.
When a group, or clique of people set out to suppress, any opposition view, that is demean any person or persons with an opposite view to theirs, they invariably succeed.
Having pointed the finger, they can then censor reply, so that only the views of the clique are available for scrutiny, without comparison or challenge. Comment's must be approved by a self appointed judge, or appointed by the clique, either way one who favours the group, one who has favourable leanings – one dominated by the clique.
The challenge from the victim may be done in anger and frustration, because his replies or comments are denied as "unapproved", while knowing full well that he is the scapegoat, for those who are in fact insulting and demeaning him, and causing most of the problems within. The more he protests, the more he is censored, and the more the false reasons for "disapproval" mount.
What the victim must now do is one of two things. Submit to the clique and become their ongoing football, or seek a platform from where he can fight back with the same freedom afforded his oppressors. If he is strong willed he will retaliate against having his thoughts restricted by a self established Dictator, or dictatorial clique.
In a broader sense this might be called revolution. It is the desire to fight against oppression; against the will of others, to deny free speech, the right of reply and expression of views and opinions. The right to be free; the right to dissent!
Often, what is ironic is that all of these things are practiced freely by the Clique and its fair weather dictator. The dictator at this point is only another whipping boy, his inabilities to handle responsibility, his conceit, and willingness to avoid accountability, being some of his exploited traits, which give him a false perception of himself. There is normally another who wields the power; that influences the paper dictator and the main group within the clique.
When this influence is by some circumstance removed, the dictator is left frustrated and unable to deal with the situation properly, thereby graduating to a cardboard Dictator, trying to replace his lost influence by bulldozing his way about, using once more the original victim as the cause of the common dissent associated with the cliques discomforts and factional differences, which he himself has contributed to.
But the scapegoat has had enough... he is ready to fight back from where HE has some control over what ensues. Hey Presto! The insults, the demeaning comments, from the now frustrated shattered dictator, start pouring in. The boot is on the other foot. Everyone can now be witness to his comments and replies, and those with opposing views and comments.
DEMOCRACY has arrived!
There are no restrictions as the relieved scapegoat politely presents his self before all and watches the processes of freedom develop. Yet he feels sad, because all he wanted was to have his say in the first place. He did not have any desire to reveal the hate, the oppression, and the prejudice of the clique. He knew what the risks were, that when the dust cleared he would have done nothing.
They did it all – the very people who opposed it. Now he is quite willing to become the scapegoat for those who wish to take the credit, for he never did, nor ever will, wish any of them any ill.