PATHOLOGICAL SELF DESTRUCTIVE ALTRUISM VS GUILT I had lunch with jewish conserva

PATHOLOGICAL SELF DESTRUCTIVE ALTRUISM VS GUILT

I had lunch with jewish conservative Paul Gottfried sometime in the 00’s. I don’t remember when. In a little restaurant in Auburn Alabama. I didn’t know much about him at the time. And he told me about his book and theory of white guilt. Which, of course, I disagreed with, because guilt is not something that my people worry too much about (WASPS). We worry about accomplishment. We worry about not doing harm. But guilt we tend to think of as mistakes and little else.

I tend to agree with Paul a lot but I think he projected upon northern Europeans, a jewish passion, that we don’t feel. Wasps don’t feel guilty. We acknowledge our mistakes (sometimes slowly) and just try not to repeat them. We are good at punishing our own (which is the opposite of the jewish model, and why guilt is important to them).

And we do punish our own. Altruistic punishment is an internal means of discipline. Right now we are punishing ourselves out of protestant altruistic punishment not out of guilt. This may seem the same but it is not.

So Paul is wrong that its guilt(submission to authority). It’s altruistic punishment(nobility).

—-callout—-

—“Altruistic punishment is a behavior in which individuals punish others (defectors/free-riders/non-cooperators) at a cost to themselves in order to provide a public good or otherwise advance the fitness/utility of a larger group.”—

—-callout—-

Had someone figured this out before Macdonald and others popularized it (or had the idea held on past the thirties) we would have been perhaps able to defend ourselves a bit better.

The aristocratic reaction to socialism was that it made no sense, but then again, if it worked it was hard to argue with. Conservatives experiment by doing, not bywords. We were afraid that it wouldn’t work. We were right.

We were afraid the multiculturalism wouldn’t work.

We were right.

It’s expensive to incoroporate people into a high trust society and a high trust society requires homogeneous norms.