In modern society an individual’s
loyalty must be first to the system and only secondarily to
a smallscale community, because if the internal loyalties
of small-scale communities were stronger than loyalty to
the system, such communities would pursue their own advantage
at the expense of the system.
The problems of the leftist are indicative of the problems
of our society as a whole. Low self-esteem, depressive
tendencies and defeatism are not restricted to the left.
Though they are especially noticeable in the left, they are
widespread in our society. And today’s society tries to socialize
us to a greater extent than any previous society. We
are even told by experts how to eat, how to exercise, how
to make love, how to raise our kids and so forth.
Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect”
terminology are not the average black ghettodweller,
Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person,
but a minority of activists, many of whom do not
even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from
privileged strata of society. Political correctness has its
stronghold among university professors, who have secure
employment with comfortable salaries, and the majority
of whom are heterosexual white males from middle- to
upper-middle-class families.