Deconstructing Theodore’s Manifesto (Part 2)
The Section entitled The Psychology of Modern Leftism begins by affirming that Almost everyone will agree that we live in a deeply troubled society. I do not know about almost everyone, I at least do agree with this statement. A society that venerates billionaires, desecrates culture, oppresses, spies and controls its own people, pretends the homeless are non-entities, allows and consents the abuse, neglect, rape and murder of children, destroys the natural world and treats non-human species as commodities is both deeply troubled and deranged.

The author describes the modern leftists as socialists, collectivists, politically correct types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like. Which brings to mind the almost unfathomable case of Biology professor Bret Weinstein. Professor Weinstein’s unpardonable sin, according to the modern leftist students rallying against him, was to stand for principles of equity when in 2017 he opposed to submit to the organizers of a Day of Absence in which white people would not be allowed into Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. There is a huge difference, wrote professor Weinstein, between a group or coalition deciding to voluntarily absent themselves from a shared space in order to highlight their vital and underappreciated roles and a group encouraging another group to go away. The first is a forceful call to consciousness, which is, of course, crippling to the logic of oppression. The second is a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself. On a college campus, he added, one’s right to speak, or to be, must never be based on skin color.

These statements created threats and protests against the professor, of which he wrote on the Twitter platform during the events, and the strong request from a group of students for him to be removed from his position. The case ended in professor Weinstein’s negotiated departure from the University. Facts and logic are no match against the imbecility of the masses.

Modern leftists have seemingly agreed during the last decade that the best way to fight capitalism, all they judge as inappropriate behavior, sexual harassment, global warming, discrimination, terrorism and injustice of all kinds is via posts on the social platform Twitter, or a similar medium, preceded by a hashtag (#) like #MeToo #BlackLivesMatter #OscarsSoWhite #ShoutYourAbortion (yes, this exists in the same realm as you and me) #PrayForParis #ProtectOurWinters and many more. This trend has even been named as Hashtag Activism. Activists act. Spectators hide behind a hashtag and a screen.

Mr. Kaczynski ends this brief section of his Manifesto mentioning Modern Leftists’ two major psychological tendencies: feelings of inferiority and oversocialization.
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['Activism', 'Technology', 'Society', 'Tech', 'Politics']