The more our manipulators can get us to shrink our expectations—perhaps I should say increase— as far as acceptable levels of safety, the more government they can justify.
It is a truism that the larger the govwrnment the smaller the people, but the converse, the bottom up, holds as well: the smaller the people—the more timid, cautious, confused and other-directed the people— the more they will DEMAND more government.
And it seems obvious that the “morality” our kids are being taught is that the weaker and smaller the persons, the more prestige they have. If you are a designated victim in three ways, you are simultaneously proclaiming your essential helplessness—your GREATER helplessness relative to the rest of us normies—AND your importance at the same time.
Nothing more pernicious to emotional well being could be imagined. I can’t, in any event. Being “intersectioal” is literally to be given a soapbox from which to DEMAND more government, less freedom, less responsibility, and ultimately to abdicate any chance of a healthy self respect and sense of personal agency outright. You are in the state of being “done to” and rather than rise above it you cry, like an infant, for someone to come rescue you and do to you in a better way.
It is obvious to me that most black ghettos are a wasteland of deep emotional scars. Some of them do derive ultimately from past racism, but most of them come from right now, from mothers unable to meet their childrens needs, from violencein the streets, from the ignorance that follows a failing educational system, from the lack of good jobs.
And I think much of this desire to destroy the past, among white Legtists,comes from their fear of the present. They do not want to know what people are capable of. More than anything they do not want to know that all the evils of the past, all the inhumanity—so-called—still lives on in them. They fear the past because they rightly fear themselves.