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This retelling of dynamic of the arc of Drew's life and that of Obama's, and the great appeal of Marxism to college kids, as reported here and elsewhere and seen with my own eyes worldwide have inspired a birth of a ponder in my mind. There is something very disconcerting to those coming of age (adulthood) in our modern era, worldwide, that is stroked and comforted by Marxism. Obama seems to be close to or at the pinnacle (within mankind) of that discomfort because of his life, and with the opportunities presented him -- via his Mom, via his Grand-dad Dunham, via Frank Davis and all the Marxists he met thereafter -- he thus has become like what in far-eastern cultures is called a God of a thing, an avatar, similar to what Carl Jung calls an archtype. A unique character that aggregates all the forces related to some intrinsic of human being.

What I am interesting in, this ponder, is what is that dense set, compact manifold, of psychic, sociological and psychological forces underlying this coming of age dynamic are? Cultural estrangement, a broken family (and broken village), reactionary psychological detachment, and a deconstructionist spite are all part of it, clearly, but I can not easily make out the rest of it.

I do not think it is the "goth" transition -- that of the end or "killing" of childhood innocence as represented in various idioms in the goth culture, it's something deeper. One that can sustain longer in life, one that explains why so many of the idiot sophomore Marxists in dorms remain locked into that deluded ideology til late in life.

......he thus has become like what in far-eastern cultures is called a God of a thing, an avatar, similar to what Carl Jung calls an archetype. A unique character that aggregates all the forces related to some intrinsic of human being.

Thanks. Now waddawedo?

Outstanding post.

Easy...it’s self-loathing. That’s why enlightened self-interest remains a foreign concept to them.