Why Have Mental Illness, Victimhood and Identity Politics Become Desirable in West
In a previous post, I wrote about how western countries now seem to worship people with overt mental illness. Three examples which covered a range of topics from totally irrational reactions to COVID-19 pandemic, rise of trans-activism and the bizarre cult of environmentalism, were used to show that this malaise is much more systemic than many might want to acknowledge. Let us expand this further to ask ourselves a bigger question: how did things reach the point where having a self-diagnosed mental illness, being an alleged victim of something or someone or belonging to a made-up minority group become desirable in the west during past two or three decades? And what does this say about the societies we are living in today?
You might have noticed that everybody from movie and TV stars to influencers on the internet say they have some mental illness or “condition”, which they repeatedly talk about, often to the point of boredom. These “illnesses” and “conditions” range from depression and anxiety to hilarious ones such as asexuality to some ill-defined allergy. While chronic depression and excessive anxiety can be real medical conditions, isn’t it odd that everybody and their dog is suddenly claiming to have them? Now, there is the issue where certain features of contemporary western society are so pathological that they cause mental distress and illness in a significant percentage of people. However, it is most peculiar that the median person who claims to suffer from these conditions is a white woman or feminized young man whose occupation can best be described as doing something with zero or negative effect on the rest of society.
Similarly the woman (usually white) who works in a useless or superfluous job who claims to be asexual usually has a boyfriend or husband and frequently kids. Am I the only person who finds this a bit odd? While it is very likely that the boyfriends and husbands of such women are spineless losers with zero sex appeal, isn’t it interesting that woman is claiming asexuality rather than loss of interest in that sexual partner. Then there is the massive increase in people with various mysterious and debilitating “allergies” and ill-defined “auto-immune” diseases. I am not denying that rates of allergies and asthma in children living in western countries have increased a lot over past four decades- and we know why. But isn’t it odd that most adult sufferers of these odd conditions are almost exclusively white women with useless or superfluous jobs?
Moving on.. have you noticed that almost every female “celebrity” seems to remember being sexually assaulted as an adolescent or young woman. Oddly, they remember these important facts only after their career and looks starts going downhill. And why have so many female “celebrities” with no history of dating women suddenly come out as bi-sexual, pan-sexual or “queer”. Isn’t it odd the sexual orientation, which we know to be largely inborn, seems to suddenly change for aging white women “celebrities” who want attention. And why do so many of their progeny identify as gay, pan-sexual, trans or “queer”? Why don’t we see a similar increase in blacks, latinos or whites with real jobs. Don’t you find it curious that these trends are highly correlated with the person’s occupation and zip code?
Let us talk about victimhood.. How come the majority of self-anointed victims of discrimination and micro-aggressions are white women? And not just any white woman- but the kind who has a desk job. While non-white women are increasingly claiming victimhood, they are almost always also from the desk job class. Are working class women (white and non-white) largely immune from discrimination and micro-aggressions? Why don’t working class women demand “safe-spaces” like their desk top job brethren? Isn’t it interesting that the desk job class keep on inventing new forms of victimhood? Why are they interested in continuously rewriting their sexual history to make every inconvenient encounter from their past into a sexual assault? Don’t you find it odd that they remember “sexual harassment” years and decades after the fact and only if it is personally profitable to do so.
Then there is the whole issue of identity politics. Why do people have to “identify” into arbitrary groups created by losers who got worthless degrees in post-modern studies? Who gains from such classifications and to what end? What drives some to make up life stories and disabilities for climbing up the hierarchy of victimhood? Isn’t it odd that almost every single person impersonating as a member of other race white- and the desk job class. Why aren’t working class people of any race not interested in cosplaying as a member of another race? Why do people who do not contribute to society in any positive manner the ones most likely to proclaim their victimhood, alleged membership in multiple marginalized groups and suffering from multiple conditions. Also why is being a member of desktop class the best correlator for this behavior. It is also hard to ignore that the rise of these scams have a rather peculiar relationship with late capitalism and financialization of West.
What do you think? Comments?