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Excuses. That’s all I can think about when I come across any pundit or analyst or academic or, as my dad used to call them, people who like to talk , running down the reasons why not everyone gets to have a good life. More precisely, these are usually bullshit excuses . And more damningly, a mass fraud is being perpetrated. That’s because – and this is a fact – everything’s been figured out. The food supplies, the medical procedures, the undeniable virtues of tolerance and inclusion, the protection from harm, the capacity for healing. We have it all, pretty much. Consider subscribing to BFT and join the growing BFT discord, a millennial retirement home where we talk politics, sports, culture, and other stuff. We didn’t have it as recently as, say, one hundred years ago. Certainly not five hundred, or one thousand years ago. But we’ve evolved quite decently in fact. Over the generations human beings have cultivated opportunities and understandings so that everyone – literally everyone – can be well, and can be treated well. So when there is deprivation – whether of rights or good will, sustenance or housing, security or comfort – it’s because we, or really, some criminal subset of us, have chosen it. It is desired. And when we, or rather some misguided subset of us, talk about the unfortunate reasons this deprivation is so, or must be so, we are making excuses. Bullshit excuses. Bullshit excuses that bloom into mass fraud. And damn do we make them. There’s practically an Excuses Industrial Complex (see the field of economics). We’ve made so many excuses for keeping things on the wrong side of fair, generous and kind, that we’re annihilating the boundaries of reality with some of them. Suddenly, we’re well past a crisis of legitimacy. There is no crisis. There is no legitimacy. Read more at BadFaithTimes.com .