The 'Jewish identity' Project

 The 'Jewish identity' project

Anyway, in the modern world, in the post-industrial society, we can no longer afford this authoritarian sense of power over nature which the patriarchal family transmits; today, the most important aspect of mental health is giving people an identity that will make them happy and erotically satisfied. 

This was the great original contribution of the Frankfurt School after World War II, when they worked with several Jewish organizations to create a new identity for American Jews. 

The Frankfurt School said that henceforth, Jewish identity would be defined,

 not by religious belief, 

not by the ideas through which Jews contributed to the rest of humanity, 

but by The Holocaust: 

Jews would be trained to see themselves primarily as victims of genocide. 

This has worked fantastically; even today, Jews who think that the B'nai B'rith are a bunch of crooks still give money to that organization because they have been trained to believe that they are profoundly different from everybody else, and that anti-Semites are ready to start a new Holocaust at any moment.

The Jewish identity project worked so well that we Frankfurt School Freudians asked to do the same thing for Black People. 

In the 1960s, many Black People were successfully re-trained to believe that what really defined their identity was how their African ancestors had been enslaved by White People. 

We did the same thing for Women! 

The Feminist Movement used Frankfurt School theory and Freud to help millions of Women realize that what really defined their identity was male chauvinism.

You see how successful we have been? Today, we give everybody the identity they need. 

We even teach it in the schools—it's called multiculturalism. 

Everybody gets an identity based on Who Raped Whom.

The Latin Americans understand that the most important thing is to get back at the Spanish colonialists

The Native Americans understand that the most important thing is to get back at the Whites—everyone separated from everyone else. 

Fear? Hatred? Revenge? 

Sure! We give them that!

But we also give them an identity, and they are happy.

But, we have spent too much time talking about what I think. 

We should be talking about what you think. 

But, I see that our time is about up. 

I think that I can fit you in next week; shall we say Tuesday? 

A short session is usually $75; you can pay as you leave.