Stone Walls

A few days back, I was walking from a lunch haunt into the capitol. The southern end of the Capitol grounds is a bit torn up these days. PA’s House and Senate complex does reside on a hill and the retaining walls are currently under recon­struc­tion. One rela­tively minor act of vandalism applied to on a newly laid granite wall caught my atten­tion and it’s been rolling around in the mind ever since. Someone had taken a red spray can and added some flair to the stone with the phrase, “Capi­talism is Slavery.” It all left me wondering what inputs the vandal had received that caused him (or her) to believe that they were being oppressed by the best economic system yet devised. Was it the ‘educa­tional’ drum­beat of a public high school teacher or college professor, intent on destroying youthful initia­tive through the confer­ring of victim­hood? Or perhaps it was some outlet of the leftist media that made an impres­sion­able mind believe that idea of personal advance­ment through honest labor were beneath his dignity. Sadly, the spray-can artist will prob­ably live out a life of discarded economic oppor­tu­nity, even as he gives another the chance to succeed — through being paid to clean graf­fiti off of stone walls!

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