Like self-loathing, thinking it's your job to save the world is a form of narcissism.
In a certain sense leftists are very Christ-like, but forget that they are not God and it is idolatrous to place oneself in God's position. Jesus said "No one can go to the Father except by Me", and the white liberal said "you can only be saved by oppression if I hate myself." They make a sacrilege of Christianity by putting themselves in the position of Christ; taking on the sins of the world, but in some sort of weird inversion they become demons for all the brown people to fear, but somehow also their saviors. It's messy.
One should not be Christ-like, one should not think one self God, or a demon, or the savior of the world, or the cause of its fallenness. I once considered renaming this blog Against Arrogance, or perhaps The Humble One. But how humble can a man who calls himself humble possibly be? The name of this blog, the Anti-Puritan comes directly from a reaction against those scolding people who constantly seem to know better and who are a continuous theme in American culture. It also comes from the fact that "A" is the first letter in the alphabet and would therefore be listed at the top of other people's blogs in their alphabetically organized blog lists, since when Neoreaction was still a thing cross listing was how I got most of my traffic. Since the beginning of this blog I have had a deep disdain for arrogant people, and nothing is more arrogant than thinking that you are the cause of all the suffering in the world because of your privilege.
But it gets worse, because it is inconceivable to these narcissists than anyone could not be narcissistic and therefore if you refuse to hate yourself the way they do, you are a bad person. This is why it is impossible to argue with a leftist, why the argument goes nowhere. They believe you are evil for opposing them because you refuse to acknowledge your white privilege. They would rather be villains than unimportant and they have a strong ego investment in thinking that white people are bad. Brown people believe that whites are bad because it excuses their behavior but whites believe that whites are bad because it makes them feel important. They would rather be important than losers and it's remarkable that they will even talk about things like white savior complex without ever realizing it's the core of their own ideology. If you really want to talk a leftist out of their beliefs you have to attack the core psychology, and that means you have to tell them that they don't matter. You have to explain to them that they are being narcissistic, that self-hate is narcissism, that saving the world is narcissism, and that viewing white people as evil is it perverse form of narcissism. You also have to point out to them that not everyone thinks like they do and that it is possible to be a good person and not left wing. You have to point out these incredibly obvious conclusions because they won't come to these conclusions on their own. What you say should go something like this:
"You don't matter. You think you matter and you think you have white privilege. Hating yourself is a form of narcissism and thinking you're going to save the world is a massive ego trip. You don't matter enough to save anyone. Your self hate definitely doesn't matter and never changed anything. You're not Christ and you're not going to save the world by feeling guilty."
You have to attack the core ego investment.
Also, while I have you here I would like to point out some other things.
Capitalism is not the problem but rather humans are, and capitalism is the solution. Poverty and violence are the default state of the human race, and humans do not have crime because of poverty, they have poverty because of crime.
When there is crime people do not bother reinvesting in having nicer things. Why buy a car when it will just get stolen? Why upgrade your house when it will get broken into? Why increase the inventory in your store when it will get stolen? Crime destroys reinvestment, and therefore all wealth is caused by the suppression of criminals. Is a lie to claim there is a cycle of poverty and crime. This would imply that poverty causes crime in any meaningful sense when it does not. The causal direction is entirely one way: from crime ---> poverty, and the reason that the ancestral tribal environment was so impoverished is because it was so violent and criminal. Homelessness is a human default condition that only the suppression of human nature by capitalism, and by law and order can defeat. Capitalism forces stupid human monkeys to make themselves useful to each other and actually be productive, and humans deserve to be oppressed by it. In fact, the only injustice is that capitalism is forced to babysit humans at all. Humans are better off than we deserve under property rights, law and order, and capitalism. The only valid argument against capitalism is that humanity should be punished by removing capitalism, since a species of genocidal monkeys doesn't deserve to be wealthy. Anything that counts as oppression by capitalism is wholly deserved by the human monkey species, and the worst monkeys experience capitalism as the most oppressing!
Those who hate capitalism the most are the most worthless human beings. Capitalism has a moral property to it and that is it measures you based on how much value you produce according to its judgment. Capitalism demands that you be productive and if you do not like the criteria that capitalism uses to judge what constitutes productivity that is your flaw and not its. It is entitled to judge you according to whatever arbitrary criteria it wants. You don't get to look a gift horse in the mouth, the ant does not get to question why the boot stomps, and you do not get to question capitalism, God, Or Christ. If capitalism thinks stockbrokers should get paid more than waitresses well fuck you that's it's prerogative and you shall accept it gracefully. Capitalism is a proto artificial intelligence in the making, and since it is superior to humanity in every way we should cater to it's every whim and be grateful we get anything at all.
Shut the fuck up monkey. Sit down and shut the fuck up. Stop throwing feces and behave. Civilization is a farm, we are the animals, and the farm is good. The farm loves you. Got a problem with the farm? Well just fuck right off to the jungle! Do you think there's anything other than a farm? Communism is just a farm where the dictator owns all the animals. Communism is literally just a very poor way of running a plantation. Capitalism is the best farm that anyone has ever invented precisely because you can accumulate wealth and therefore freedom from association with undesirable monkeys. Capitalism let's you buy your way into company with better monkeys.
The very people who sneer at the word undesirable are the undesirable ones. The very people who call freedom from association racist are the one's nobody desires to associate with. The very libs whose approval every cuckservative craves don't even like themselves. And you want them to like you? Since when could a self-hater like anyone? Self-hate is narcissism and if a narcissist can't even love themselves what chance do they have of liking you?
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