It is associational weakness, and the anxieties and resentments it breeds, that pull people apart in dangerous ways and produce new forms of intolerance and bigotry - as in the more fierce and puritanical versions of "political correctness" and the more farfetched claims of ethnic and racial mythology.
Stronger organizations, capable of collecting resources and delivering real benefits to their members, will gradually move these groups toward mutual toleration and a democratically inclusive politics.引自 Epilogue
Anyone who in his lifetime has the privilege truly to enjoy a real communal life - even just once or twice - knows so well that in his enjoyment he has the least desire to fuck with the rest of the world. He can't care less about outsiders' opinions, nor about letting outsiders know his enjoyment, because he is honorably self-sufficient, and that self-sufficiency is based upon something positive and blissfully concrete, not something negative and ominously nominal.
Who, then, are those people, who never seem to get bored with fucking with others, whose anger, hatred, and resentment against other races and social groups never seem to end? Are they honorable fighters combating the world on behalf of their communities whose cultures are endangered, whose lifestyles are mocked, and whose dignity is disrespected?
No. Too many times, we see no one else but alienated, lonely, sad individuals. They assert that they have a community in which they take pride, but no label can be as nominal and meaningless as those of "black," "Muslim," "Asian-American," "redneck," "KKK," or "republican who wants to see America great again." In their utter loneliness, they beg for recognition from outsiders. So they rush back into the barren land of their tiny minds and grab whatever may give them a purpose of life. But what do they really have? Labels, just labels. So miserably alienated as they are that they don't even know what it means by these labels. They have to give these labels meanings, and the only way they know to do this is to keep fucking with people who do not have these labels. In this way, they attain a fleeting feeling of certainty and unity.
This is what your fights for or against political correctness look like. What it shows is not the craving for justice in your heart, but just your unbearable loneliness and the sad truth that your contemptible happiness relies solely on your endless efforts to contempt the others. - See! You depend upon those you resent in order to sustain your life! Stop manuring the name of justice! You don't even know how deep the abyss in your heart can be!
Indeed, we need a tolerating world. Indeed, to that end, we need people to be proud of their own lifestyles and cultures. - BUT NEVER EVER IN YOUR WAY TO GET THIS. Without reviving local communities that give people concrete content of life, all communities under those huge and stupid titles are just imagined communities that can't even last for a day without being mean and resentful to the rest of the world.
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