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3--How Far Back?

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I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for you. That's what he said to me. Yeah, I thought it was nice too- Until he stood there with his hand out. It wasn't what he meant at all. I can understand if I killed his dog or something. I'm less certain about inheriting a debt- From a time before we even existed. Once the idea was out there though- I found reasons to do the same. No one asked me to look like a victim. At that level of hurt it just comes in naturally. When did gilt by association become a birth right?. I never had an opinion on it- I was too busy trying to stay alive. What I can't understand is- why it has anything to do with me?. I've struggled all my life to live in this system- Is that what I gained? A more efficient machine?- I now have to pay for its old mistakes? All the enslaved ever do is pay for mistakes. So... how far back? How far back until I am in receipt- of my own moral solvency? The current price of victimhood. How far back... before I stop being part of the problem? How far back... before the accusations are in my words? How far back... before there's nobody left to blame? How far back... These are not ancestral spirits . This is original sin on a global scale. If I keep looking backwards... searching for the first mistake... What happens... if I find another pair of footprints? How far back... before I stop being part of the problem? How far back... before the accusations are in my words? How far back... before there's nobody left to blame? How far back...