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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. i mean intellectually.

-V. S. Naipaul

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V. S. Naipaul

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. i mean intellectually.

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Being a victim doesn't take much. there are built-in excuses for failure. built-in excuses for being miserable. built-in excuses for being angry all the time. no reason to trying to be happy; it's not possible. you're a victim. victim of what? well, you're a victim of derision. well, you're a victim of america. you're a victim of america's past, or you're a victim of religion. you're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever. you're a victim of something. the democrats got one for you. if you want to be a victim, call 'em up.

Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... for the man an attractive girl - and for the woman an attractive man - are the prizes they are after. 'attractive' usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on the personality market. what specifically makes a person attractive depends on the fashion of the time, physically as well as mentally. ... two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values.

The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. that's enlarging. i mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.

The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. this is the press, an irresponsible press. it will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. if you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

There are some people who do not want this thing to continue to work, and that's what they're doing is all about. they don't want to unify. they don't want this thing to work. that's the whole point of going forth with grievance after grievance after grievance and victim after victim after victim, because this inherent system... there is an all-out assault on the unity of this country. there are people whose express purpose is to rip it apart.

Safety lies in catering to the in-group. we are not all brave. all i would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. that out-group is called other people. it is for them that we write.

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