Blacks’ Collective Delusion/Race Mania

By Nicholas Stix


Steve Sailer writes,

Better buzzwords for Tom Wolfe's "fiction-absolute:" A reader suggests the following potential replacements for Wolfe's important concept that "Each individual adopts a set of values which, if truly absolute in the world--so ordained by some almighty force--would make not that individual but his group . . . the best of all possible groups, the best of all inner circles."

Hopefully one of these buzzwords for "fiction absolute" might pull it off:

Vanity paradigm

Group-hype

egocosmos

hypeomology

This little insight would explain much about why Black-American media culture so adamantly condemns assimilated, by-the-book blacks as "acting white". If a critical mass of blacks decides to abide by the White egocosmos, it will damage the credibility of its black counterpart, and thus compell (eventually) blacks to accept being in second place in the dominant paradigm. Thus where going by the book might be the better individual strategy, the preservation of group vanity requires the instillment of an alternative paradigm reflecting the endowments of African-Americans, where they come in first and whites in second.

Any other suggestions?...

A better phrase already exists: collective delusion. I also like the phrase, race mania. If you want a phrase that is less derogatory, and can apply to positive or benign and malign outlooks, then there's "collective consciousness," not to be confused with Jung's "collective unconscious." "Egocosmos" doesn't work, because it is too subjective, in suggesting that it is the private project that an individual has for his group. But this is clearly not the case with blacks (and is much more pervasive than black "media culture"). And yet, none of the phrases I offered has that ironic edge Sailer is looking for. From his own list, "vanity paradigm" fills the bill much better than "egocosmos."

But in describing the mental state that apparently binds the majority of blacks in America today, I'm not looking to be cute or edgy or sound like Tom Wolfe. I'm looking to accurately describe what I observe of the behavior of blacks of the most diverse social statuses, and of the mentality that makes honest dialogue with blacks an impossibliity. And that brings me back to the terms I suggested: Collective delusion and race mania.

What say you?