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“The critical spirit rises up against itself and consumes its form. But instead of coming out of this process greater and purified, it devours itself in a kind of self-cannibalism and takes a morose pleasure in annihilating itself. Hyper-criticism eventuates in self-hatred, leaving behind it only ruins. A new dogma of demolition is born out of the rejection of dogmas. Thus we Euro-Americans are supposed to have only one obligation: endlessly atoning for what we have inflicted on other parts of humanity. How can we fail to see that this leads us to live off self-denunciation while taking a strange pride in being the worst? Self-denigration is all too clearly a form of indirect self-glorification. Evil can come only from us; other people are motivated by sympathy, good will, candor. This is the paternalism of the guilty conscience: seeing ourselves as the kings of infamy is still a way of staying on the crest of history.”

America Evil Europe Criticism Guilt Whites Self Hatred Paternalism Moroseness

Book:The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism

Source: The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism

“There is nothing more appalling than a constantly morose child.”

Children Moroseness Sullenness

Book:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings