Leftism is a psychopathology. As I have commented, their basic model is to break everything they touch, then lie about it. The hippies of the 60’s and 70’s, who are the professors now, are still lying about what happened in Vietnam. They are still ignoring their many decade failure to do anything decent and meaningful for persons of color in this country, and their patent role in actually SUPPRESSING progress, which will continue today in most newspapers and news channels.
You will see it just by turning on your TV today, or looking at the internet. They will call for one time lottery payments paid out for nothing, for no crime committed or suffered by anyone living, as a bribe for continued loyalty. They will demand people speak in certain ways, as if speech were magical, and the discourse of wealthy white people put food on the table of hungry kids in the ghettos of this nation, brought their fathers home, calmed their mothers down, improved the quality of their education, or made their streets less violent.
Here is what I propose: the quest for purpose and dignity are inherently difficult for many of us–particularly those who have been humiliated as children, made to feel existential shame, and who have felt genuine, deep terror–but it is the main game of life, and must be pursued by each of us in our own individual way, albeit ideally with social support.
In psychology, long term pathologies are often assumed to continue their existence due to some hidden benefit they bring. Yes, you are sick. Yes, you are miserable. But is there not something you LIKE, that is perhaps familiar? Do your symptoms bring you some secret sense of power? Often: yes. This is called a Secondary Gain.
What I would suggest is that the Secondary Gain white people get from preventing black folks from advancing, by what amounts to over-mothering, is cheap morality. And as with many moral crusaders, their work on the outside delays their work on the inside. They get to justify avoiding doing their own inner work, finding their own inner dignity, articulating an honest and sincere morality.
And black folks, of course, likewise get an excuse to avoid doing THEIR inner work. They are “oppressed”, even though most of Africa would give a finger from each hand to come here and be allowed access just to the opportunities black folks have in this country, to free education, to capital, to political freedom, to BOOKS (read this,) and perhaps weep a bit: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/dec/08/nobelprize.classics
I myself am not innocent in all this. I get secondary gains from blogging, from thinking, from abstracting. I flatter myself that some of what I write (certainly not all of it) is intelligent, but it perhaps does not matter.
I can say I continue to try and do may work every day. It hurts. It hurts a lot. But I continue. That is what I do, and who I am: I go on.