I have obviously written extensively about the intellectual perversions which must precede moral perversions. You get good kids feeling guilty about real crimes, but you neglect to mention that very few people committed most of the crimes, and you also neglect to mention that such crimes have been committed by all peoples against all peoples since, presumably, long before the beginning of recorded history, which itself began (in the West at least) with an account of a war, of slaves, of mass violence, of death, and of atrocities (although I don’t know how much was recorded).
I have, likely inappropriately, chosen to comment on some threads on Facebook posted by some very leftish friends of mine I have met at what I call my “hippy things” whenever discussing them with my kids, since Breathwork is certainly a bit out there.
And in this process it occurred to me that if we look at the issue strictly from a psychological perspective, if we bring in the idea of healthy emotionality, it is extremely UNhealthy to want to or feel the need to take responsibility for crimes you did not commit, could not have prevented, and cannot correct now even with apologies and grotesquely masochistic behavior.
I do not think it could be healthy to ask anyone else to act in an unhealthy way. It seems a reasonable standard and goal that we all be happy coexisting. The word for a compulsion to see others suffer for any reason is sadism.
The past is the past. It is done. It is in the present that ALL of us must live and make decisions. I am not sure what the word is, but the compulsion to pretend as if the past is present, and can be expiated in the present, is certainly delusional and sick. No healthy person would or could ask you to be sick with them.
Problems certainly need to be solved. But if we reference specifically the problem of blacks in this country, they create most of their own problems, expecting white people to come along and fix them. It remains my belief that if we stop treating them like children, stop allowing them to act like children, they will mature as a community, and bring forth their full contribution.
If we don’t give all the jobs to fucking robots.