I have linked psychological states with political outcomes. But most have been resistant to what I've had to say, because it affects their self-esteem.
Of course it does! All stages of learning involve having to manage our self-esteem as we realize how little it is we know and how much more we have to develop. But not listening -- whilst is may preserve your illusions -- leads to succumbing to exactly that which I had warned you about. Your psychological naivete leads directly to your being politically dominated by all sorts of unscupulous fellows.
Don't think I didn't warn you about this. But do realize that you put priority on maintaining your self esteem, rather than looking more deeply into the nature of your illusions.
You have commanded that I spend many years looking very deeply indeed into the nature of my own political, moral and historical illusions -- and I have done so. I've also learned a great deal about the link between psychological states and power structures in the process. But now that I know all this, it's much easier to see that the majority of people remain stuck at the level of being concerned only with the sensations they have about themselves. The whole of new left politics is predicated around the need that certain downpressed people feel, to elevate their self esteem.
But I cannot do that! You must do it on your own. And after that, when you feel strong enough, it is imperative to make the link between your acceptance of political domination and the nature of your psychological states. That is work you must do on your own -- or else, succumb to the politics of resentment by voting out left-leaning encumbents because you are not totally satisfied with a less than completely submissive, morally-motherly figure.
You vote in order to enhance your self-esteem, but your actions are an endless well of negativity. You can't achieve a political outcome that way. Politics is one thing and self-esteem is another, but you insist on confounding the two, to the extent that a government of the extreme right seems preferable to you than one who fractionally transgresses your pristine morality.
I'm no longer going to promote your right to self-deception, not even when you crave it, like mother's milk, because I will not be your vehicle for self-delusion and political captivation. You need to work it out for yourselves.
If you are lowly and feel lowly, well, I can see why. It's because of what you continually insist on doing to yourselves, which is to punish others on your side for not being perfect enough for you. Well, that is why you are in the mess you are in.
But you have nobody to blame for this but yourselves. And stop blaming others. Get over yourselves.
Of course it does! All stages of learning involve having to manage our self-esteem as we realize how little it is we know and how much more we have to develop. But not listening -- whilst is may preserve your illusions -- leads to succumbing to exactly that which I had warned you about. Your psychological naivete leads directly to your being politically dominated by all sorts of unscupulous fellows.
Don't think I didn't warn you about this. But do realize that you put priority on maintaining your self esteem, rather than looking more deeply into the nature of your illusions.
You have commanded that I spend many years looking very deeply indeed into the nature of my own political, moral and historical illusions -- and I have done so. I've also learned a great deal about the link between psychological states and power structures in the process. But now that I know all this, it's much easier to see that the majority of people remain stuck at the level of being concerned only with the sensations they have about themselves. The whole of new left politics is predicated around the need that certain downpressed people feel, to elevate their self esteem.
But I cannot do that! You must do it on your own. And after that, when you feel strong enough, it is imperative to make the link between your acceptance of political domination and the nature of your psychological states. That is work you must do on your own -- or else, succumb to the politics of resentment by voting out left-leaning encumbents because you are not totally satisfied with a less than completely submissive, morally-motherly figure.
You vote in order to enhance your self-esteem, but your actions are an endless well of negativity. You can't achieve a political outcome that way. Politics is one thing and self-esteem is another, but you insist on confounding the two, to the extent that a government of the extreme right seems preferable to you than one who fractionally transgresses your pristine morality.
I'm no longer going to promote your right to self-deception, not even when you crave it, like mother's milk, because I will not be your vehicle for self-delusion and political captivation. You need to work it out for yourselves.
If you are lowly and feel lowly, well, I can see why. It's because of what you continually insist on doing to yourselves, which is to punish others on your side for not being perfect enough for you. Well, that is why you are in the mess you are in.
But you have nobody to blame for this but yourselves. And stop blaming others. Get over yourselves.
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