Oversocialization, Problem with Leftism

Oversocialization 是過度社會化的意思，雖然接受高等教育與過度社會化呈現正相關，但oversocialization是人類文明發展出最殘忍的互相傷害手段之一。

如果一個人過度社會化，他會特別注小心不要違反社會規矩，違反了會產生羞恥心和愧疚感，擔心是否造成他人困擾了、擔心別人指責他；他也很敏感，容易過度解讀別人的言行、察覺到對方對他的冒犯。

然而，那些規矩不一定和道德相關，也不一定會提升生活品質，大部分的規矩都是繁文縟節又和道德一點關係也沒有，只是社會洗腦我們那些行為是不得體的、不道德的。

過度社會化的人終其一生被那些不重要的規矩所綁住，受自己的羞恥心折磨，造成心理上極大的痛苦。

24. Psychologists use the term “socialization” to designate the process by which children are trained to think and act as society demands. A person is said to be well socialized if he believes in and obeys the moral code of his society and fits in well as a functioning part of that society. It may seem senseless to say that many leftists are oversocialized, since the leftist is perceived as a rebel. Nevertheless, the position can be defended. Many leftists are not such rebels as they seem.

25. 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.

26. 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. 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.

我常常被羞恥心愧疚感所折磨，但矛盾的是我在一些人眼中有點奇怪，被他們當成社會化不足。就像是我討厭這個案子，但我靠這個案子賺錢，這樣有什麼不道德嗎？

討厭是非常正常的情緒，我沒有傷害別人，為什麼不道德了？為什麼不能有討厭我的工作的情緒？

現代人以為政治正確只會發生在左膠sjw身上， 但其實這種「要正確」的心態在生活中無所不在，哪怕那種規範一點道理也沒有。

我看到一半，那份宣言對於左派的評論我覺得有些非常中肯。連我這個前左膠現中立偏左的自由派都能說服了。

雖然作者是個哈佛畢業的白種直男，還為了讓媒體（Washington Post）發表他的宣言，威脅要繼續隨機殺人。他被關進監獄前有二十幾年都生活在森林裡的小木屋，以原始斷開科技的方式維生。但在那個年代（1990s)，字裏行間對於女性、有色人種、同性戀、跨性別的描述算是不那麼歧視了，至少沒看到仇恨或明顯的貶低，還補充「我絕對不是暗指他們比較低劣」，儘管我還是看到幾句隱約的歧視和誤解。讀書本來就是這樣，一定有地方你認同或不認同，全部照收太奇怪了。

多看一點同溫層外的東西其實幫助很大，當然不是要看反對方偏激份子的強詞奪理，如果有道理自然就會被說服長知識和觀點，沒道理就不要接受，沒什麼好怕的，雖然有時候會覺得自己被婊到。

Problem with Leftism

10.By “feelings of inferiority” we mean not only inferiority feelings in the strict sense but a whole spectrum of related traits; low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, depressive tendencies, defeatism, guilt, self- hatred, etc. We argue that modern leftists tend to have some such feelings (possibly more or less repressed) and that these feelings are decisive in determining the direction of modern leftism.

11.When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem. This tendency is pronounced among minority rights activists, whether or not they belong to the minority groups whose rights they defend. They are hypersensitive about the words used to designate minorities and about anything that is said concerning minorities.

19.He has a deficit in his sense of power and self-worth, but he can still conceive of himself as having the capacity to be strong, and his efforts to make himself strong produce his unpleasant behavior. [1] But the leftist is too far gone for that. His feelings of inferiority are so ingrained that he cannot conceive of himself as individually strong and valuable. Hence the collectivism of the leftist. He can feel strong only as a member of a large organization or a mass movement with which he identifies himself.

20.Notice the masochistic tendency of leftist tactics. Leftists protest by lying down in front of vehicles, they intentionally provoke police or racists to abuse them, etc. These tactics may often be effective, but many leftists use them not as a means to an end but because they PREFER masochistic tactics. Self-hatred is a leftist trait.

這段很有意思，左派主義有嚴重的被虐傾向和自卑感，喜歡用偏激危險、甚至可能傷害自己的方式表達訴求。

21.But compassion and moral principle cannot be the main motives for leftist activism. Hostility is too prominent a component of leftist behavior; so is the drive for power. Moreover, much leftist behavior is not rationally calculated to be of benefit to the people whom the leftists claim to be trying to help.For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense to demand affirmative action in hostile or dogmatic terms? Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and symbolic concessions to white people who think that affirmative action discriminates against them. But leftist activists do not take such an approach because it would not satisfy their emotional needs. Helping black people is not their real goal. Instead, race problems serve as an excuse for them to express their own hostility and frustrated need for power. In doing so they actually harm black people, because the activists’ hostile attitude toward the white majority tends to intensify race hatred.

很多時候左派表達的方式跟暴力相關（看看美國BLM事件就跟這段講得一樣），明明可以用溝通理性去表達訴求，非得用暴力讓其他人對他們觀感不佳，甚至傷害到他們想幫助的對象（黑人）

他們不是認真想解決問題，只是想獲得力量。

網路上有中文翻譯但我嚴重懷疑是google翻譯的，翻超爛，還是貼原文好了。

作者寫出這些大膽的論述，幸好有補充到不是「所有」左派都這樣，也不是右派就沒有這樣的情況，只是這是左派常見的現象。