Socializing Outrage

When did the ingenious notion of equality of opportunity and equality before the law become the banal equality of income? When did the national vision of shared basic human rights become shared income of others? And how has this insinuated itself so easily into the national debate?

This seismic shift in our thinking--or some thinking--carries some innuendo, that disparity of income is inherently dangerous to a culture, that it is destabilizing.

Now it is likely that studies will show that abusive, rapacious leaders are eventually overthrown by the people they are abusing and raping but it is a particularly cynical view of man to think that these outrages will be made whole by sharing the booty.