I feel like this is very obvious to most people, but is really... Not something we are "allowed" to admit to, at least officially.
It's a very strange time, in this sort of... "Mental health" space. On the one hand we have literally thousands of Tiktok, Instagram, Snapchat and Tumblr posts by edgy teens claiming to have mental issues, whether they actually do or not, and capitalising on that "brand", while on the other hand... The way we actually treat this shit is fundamentally not working...
Look, I appreciate that brain chemistry plays a role in most mental health issues. So does trauma. So does genetics. But the fact that "we", as a society, choose to pretend like depression and anxiety are purely caused by internal problems, and can be treated almost solely as such? That's frankly fucking insane...
The fact that men, in particular, are treated like it is their... Fault, that they are suffering, even if they are poor, even if they have a shit job, or are lonely, or have no friends that they can rely on, or are dealing with... Personal issues from having seen, or experienced, really bad shit... The fact that we say "just go to therapy" or "just take the pill, bro", or "just smoke some weed, bro. It'll help" - frankly it's fucked.
The sheer lack of support in society, to actually... Help people, and do more than just talk. To actually offer practical solutions, and get people truly connected to their society (men's sheds are great and all, but they fundamentally fail to replace what church, and the local sports team, say, once provided), and defeat that... Isolation, that has become the heart of "modern society". That's where the fundamental problems lie, I think. Let alone, say, if you get laid off, or sacked, or lose your position somehow - there is NO support, for most people, when that happens. None at all.
No wonder people fall through the cracks. No wonder we hear about people like Paul Green (rugby league coach - sacked), Jacinda Barclay and Harley Balic (AFL, womens and men's respectively - left out of their team squads during Covid) killing themselves, let alone "ordinary" people who generally have even less support, and certainly considerably less money to play with...
The whole thing is just... Pretty fucked up, frankly. Leftists constantly whine about Catholicism teaching "the flock" to "externalise blame", but now we have a secular society that teaches everyone to, in essence, BOTH externalise and internalise blame, both at the same time, which is... Probably not any healthier, frankly.
I just wish "we", in Current Era, dealt with these things better than we do.
There are many 'defeated peoples' who do just fine on this score, and even do much better than the 'victor peoples' both in terms of health and economics.
Maybe it depends on what framework you have for explaining your suffering. It was seen in concentration camps that people can endure almost anything (only mentally, of course), as long as they attach meaning to what they are enduring.
Aboringals and blacks in the US don't have that. Their suffering, historical and/or imagined, has no deeper meaning to them, so it bothers them a lot. At the same time, it's being harped on all the time, keeping the wounds fresh.
Your surprise that the advocacy of white liberals on behalf of any group has no relation at all to the benefit of that group is misplaced. This is very common. As Sowell describes, they adopt mascots for the gratification of their own ego, and nothing more.
If it is any consolation, the non-huwhites are also completely disenfranchised. You gain power by disenfranchising others, which is why they do it.
But we're not going to surrender, we're not going to give in, because while they have to imagine oppression and tyranny to fight against in order to feel noble, we have the real thing.
There are many ways in which someone can undermine the ruling classes and the system even from the position of being suppressed. If people like Solzhienitzyn and Sakharov could do it in the Soviet Union, so can we.
There's a lot of rightful anger around this "National Park closure (to white people" business. I'm not sure how, but I'm going to join in the campaign to use that anger, and try to push for a fight back. Because I've never seen a government so clearly admit their intention to enforce tyrannical, racist law like this...
If you haven't seen it yet, the NSW government is proposing half million dollar fines for using an existing walking track, and climbing a mountain that is very popular with tourists (Mount Warning), both domestic and international...
$550 thousand. For climbing a mountain.
And they plan to "ban" the use of images of the mountain, too (because apparently they can do that).
Hopefully that should be enough to piss normies off.
Culture war, woohoo!
And only if you are not aboriginal? That is insane, but not surprising - governments are despotisms.
Normies have close to no influence. It is highly organized, highly politicized minorities who do. Unless things go so bad to drive the normies in to organized groups opposing the status quo, it will be of no effect.