A Writer Confronts Canadian Society's Ambitious Opportunists
By Bobby Kushner / July 11, 2023WATERLOO, ONTARIO -- A conservative swindles a life-long friend out of his savings and a liberal a disabled man out of his vehicle.
Conservatives painted the swindling of the life-long friend as a reward for enduring an abusive friendship and liberals of the disabled man retribution for living a life of misogyny.
To confront society’s “ambitious opportunists” on both political sides, Bobby Kushner, a Canadian writer, wrote a speech named “The Fighters and the Others.”
The speech compares the lives of the ambitious opportunists to the ambitious fighters.
“The ambitious opportunists revere greed, the want of everything for nothing,” Kushner says. “and the ambitious fighters achievement, the desire to overcome difficulty and create opportunity.”
The speech also explores how society even values the ambitious opportunists over the ambitious fighters.
“Society prizes the ones seeking to avoid the difficulties and steal opportunities from others to seize their wants.” Kushner says.
“It reveres them as strong, resourceful and powerful, though these types worked at overcoming nothing to seize their ambitions.”
The speech “The Fighters And The Others” reads, . . .
Reward belongs to the fighters!
Not the ones, who reward their own failure and, at best, their own mediocrity!For the fighters seek to defeat the difficulties, though they often taste defeat and at times death, as the others seek ease and rewards for their ease.
The fighters favour the life of strain and triumph and the others the one of ease and escape.
Through difficulty, the fighting edge of the fighters sharpens and of the others flattens.
The reasons why the fighters' lives of difficulty taste that full flavour that their opponents' lives of ease will never taste!
——— By Robert-S. Kushner
Bobby Kushner's "The Fighter And The Others"
Bobby Kushner's "The Fighter And The Others"
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