I’ve been thinking a lot about Ted Kaczynski’s analysis of leftist self-hatred. He argued that leftists use client groups as a proxy for their resentment.
Obviously, leftists are dysgenic mifits, and they really hate normative society. Issues like racism / feminism / socialism can be used to attack that society.
It occurs to me that leftists almost never demand justice for their own personal experiences. They were most certainly bullied in school, because they are always calling their political enemies “weird,” or “incels,” “basement dwellers,” etc.
Leftists can’t talk about their own oppression because it would reveal them to be bitter antinormative losers. They hate anything good and successful.
I also notice that they talk about their life / politics in a manner similar to a therapy session. It’s very vague, platitudinous discussion. It reminds me of when I got out of the mental hospital and had to take a 6-week DBT course. They gave us stuff like this graph, and they would drone on and on about it without saying anything of substance.
Example channel:
See how indecisively liberal this is? It’s like “This can sometimes be good, and this can sometimes be bad.”
This is basically DBT, the rational-emotional-wise. maybe you could say DBT is just this.
It’s an inferior conceptualisation however of the Many Parts within us, as Jung expressed, and Nietzsche - every emotional state has its own desire. But for the leftists, this type of safe, watering down of the subject is just fine.
I think leftists are very socially aware. The old view of leftists as the nerds and the rightists as the jocks is gone - it’s like in 21 Jump Street with Jonah hill, they go to high school and all the kids they thought were going to be nerds are actually the cool ones selling drugs. That’s what they are, social animals, desperately seeking to be accepted by the crowd.
There are several issues you’re addressing with leftist behavior that need to be teased apart. But as mondray said I think their primary driver is status. Their antinormativity has its origins in Christianity, which first presented rebellion against nature and innate morality as “high status” and “cool.” Basically making it cool and even “intellectual” to be retarded and counter-intuitive. Leftists are still doing that to this day. In that sense, no matter how much status or power they have, they’re still Punk. They’ll always be rebellious because they rebel against eternal truth itself.
Generally I think they’re just stupid people who want to be popular and powerful.
