Boring

A boring moral conceit undermines real activism.I have noticed many people adopt this attitude for personal, egotistical reasons. Such "good" leftists are worse than my worst enemies, who are at least less sensitive to minor issues of conformity and announce their status as enemies from the beginning. I have had perfect leftists block me on Facebook for not having the same position on Islam as they do. I am critical of it and they are not. I've had 'radical feminists' denounce me for fabricated and nonsensical reasons. Most people don't have a deep capacity for thought or fairness. I think that's gone out of style as people have become increasingly hysterical. I also think that there is a reason for this. The late capitalist system treats people with the same inconsistency as a grandiose narcissistic parent would. It both praises and builds up their sense of importance for unmerited reasons and then devalues and threatens to dump them. Both at the same time! In late Capitalist societies, the consumer is king and his or her every wish is to be catered to, no matter how fantastic. At the same time, "the consumer" is also a worker or laborer -- and the laborer is devalued, made to know he is expendable and treated with short thrift. As a result of this contradictory treatment, the average citizen grows up confused about himself and does not know how to correctly evaluate anything. He develops narcissistic defenses to cope with his vulnerabilities. He doesn't think things through. He immerses himself in metaphysics and self-righteous moralizing, but at no point does he examine actual cause and effect or dare to look at reality directly. He has learned to be afraid of it.