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Industrial Society and its Future

Essay

washingtonpost.com: Unabomber Special Report

Quotes

Backup for Perspective on History

https://youtu.be/RRzfsbIkSoo?si=hk1O8L2ysypRYPAe&t=2119

FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY
  • The leftist's feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior.
  • But the leftist is too far gone for that. His feelings of inferiority are so ingrained that he cannot conceive of himself as individually strong and valuable.
  • His feelings of inferiority are so ingrained that he cannot conceive of himself as individually strong and valuable.
  • He can feel strong only as a member of a large organization or a mass movement with which he identifies himself.
    • The previous 4 quotes highlight something I was listening to on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, people can not detach the ideas a person has from said person
  • Notice the masochistic tendency of leftist tactics. Leftists protest by lying down in front of vehicles, they intentionally provoke police or racists to abuse them, etc. These tactics may often be effective, but many leftists use them not as a means to an end but because they PREFER masochistic tactics. Self-hatred is a leftist trait.
    • I wonder how this masochistic tendency relates to the narratives and characters of The Culture Series?
  • Helping black people is not their real goal. Instead, race problems serve as an excuse for them to express their own hostility and frustrated need for power.
  • They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality.
    • I am a person moved by emotions, I sorta hate that part of myself sometimes. What moves conservatives?
    • Oh their family, of course
    • But the feelings of family are not as topic as racial issues
  • Thus the oversocialized person is kept on a psychological leash and spends his life running on rails that society has laid down for him.
  • Many leftists push for affirmative action, for moving black people into high-prestige jobs, for improved education in black schools and more money for such schools; the way of life of the black "underclass" they regard as a social disgrace. They want to integrate the black man into the system, make him a business executive, a lawyer, a scientist just like upper-middle-class white people. The leftists will reply that the last thing they want is to make the black man into a copy of the white man; instead, they want to preserve African American culture.