>But what is leftism? During the first half of the 20th century leftism could have been practically identified with socialism. Today the movement is fragmented and it is not clear who can properly be called a leftist. When we speak of leftists in this article we have in mind mainly socialists, collectivists, “politically correct” types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like. But not everyone who is associated with one of these move-ments is a leftist.
Me: I was told he was crazy, so never bothered to read what he had to say
framing your prose in the context of left vs right, conservative vs progressive, or republican vs democrat just plays into their D&C game. this should be avoided at all costs. you're practically working for them.
Leo Martin
Nailed it
Luke Howard
he was either a lizardman or couldn't get past his own partisan viewpoint
Isaiah Murphy
breivik pretty much copied his manifesto
Wyatt Smith
True. But it is all so negative, they push him to be a lunatic so hard.
Breivik's points are also put in such a longread he'd bore any fanatics or enemies of him. The unabomber kept his essay short, precise and understandable for everyone.
Oliver Hernandez
What is oversocialization?
Nolan Myers
I didn't mention that word in my commend, are you referring to someone else or are you baiting?
Alexander Butler
Industrial Society should be mandatory reading for anyone on the alt-right
Josiah Brown
About .1 seconds after reading it.
Leftists attach negative conotations to terms used to describe identifiable groups then demand they no longer be used.
Aiden Bennett
Its in the Unabomber manifesto that posted
Asher Torres
Yes I just finished reading it, it surprised me how eloquent and well thought through his points were.
I was told/assumed that he was a deranged lunatic. Therefore the question on peoples perspective.
You being from the USA could quite some insight, did any essay come across to anyone? Or was he just crazy and case closed? (not taling legal here, talking media coverage and such. )
Tyler Mitchell
>The moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, feel and act in a completely moral way. For example, we are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not. Some people are so highly socialized that the attempt to think, feel and act morally imposes a severe burden on them. In order to avoid feelings of guilt, they continually have to deceive themselves about their own motives and find moral explanations for feelings and actions that in reality have a non-moral origin. We use the term “oversocialized” to describe such people.
Oversocialization can lead to low self-esteem, a sense of powerlessness, defeatism, guilt, etc. One of the most important means by which our society socializes children is by making them feel ashamed of behavior or speech that is contrary to society’s expectations. If this is overdone, or if a particular child is especially susceptible to such feelings, he ends by feeling ashamed of himself. Moreover the thought and the behavior of the oversocialized person are more restricted by society’s expectations than are those of the lightly socialized person. The majority of people engage in a significant amount of naughty behavior. They lie, they commit petty thefts, they break traffic laws, they goof off at work, they hate someone, they say spiteful things or they use some underhanded trick to get ahead of the other guy. The oversocialized person cannot do these things, or if he does do them he generates in himself a sense of shame and self-hatred. The oversocialized person cannot even experience, without guilt, thoughts or feelings that are contrary to the accepted morality; he cannot think “unclean” thoughts.
Ryan Wright
Ted and Adolf were the two greatest thinkers of the modern era. It's no surprise how they are treated in the media.
James Morgan
>And socialization is not just a matter of morality; we are socialized to conform to many norms of behavior that do not fall under the heading of morality. Thus the oversocialized person is kept on a psychological leash and spends his life running on rails that society has laid down for him. In many oversocialized people this results in a sense of constraint and powerlessness that can be a severe hardship. We suggest that oversocialization is among the more serious cruelties that human beings inflict on one another.
Blake King
He was right about everything, he got MKULTRAD
Connor Flores
He threatened to keep bombing people unless he had his manifesto published. Ultimately the FBI approved having the Washington Post publish the manifesto. Ultimately, having it published is how his brother came to realize Ted was the unabomber and turned him in leading to his arrest.
Daniel Brooks
Right wing conspiracy theorists except he was a left democrat professor at university.
