I think the obsession with “identity politics” and “credentialism” within the Woke Post-Lib Cult is closely related.

The cultists are not mentally capable of computing multifactorial social equations. They lack the self-confidence to trust themselves to properly assign value to a multitude of variables in such a way as to arrive at a proper conclusion, or at least one that would meet with acceptance from their peers and superiors.

Lacking some combination of the intelligence to analyze complex situations and the confidence to independently arrive at conclusions, they desperately seek a simple binary answer to everything. They can’t judge each person as an individual—based on the content of their character, their myriad past experiences, nuanced range of perspective, overall comportment, etc…—so they need a simple marker to know how what bucket to place a person in, to know how to behave:

white = bad

man = bad

black = good

trans = good

Even then, combinations arise which confuse and confound he cultist, so there is some concession made to a simple hierarchy of virtue so that even the cultist can operate when more than one trait is present at once. Nonetheless, we often see them short-circuit when presented with trait arrangements that are paradoxical within their schema:

Rob Smith: gay (good) + black (good) + Republican/NOT CULTIST (OMEGA BAD) = BAD!

Blair White: trans (good) + white (bad) + NOT CULTIST (OMEGA BAD) = BAD!

Joe Biden: straight (bad) + white (bad) + old (bad) + man (bad) + rich (bad) + CULTIST (OMEGA GOOD) = GOOD!

As we see, the ultimate determiner is whether or not the individual is a fellow cult member, again collapsing the equation down to something manageable—intellectually, emotionally, and socially—for the cultist.

This behavior draws from the well of existential fear that we all drink from. And it is an exaggeration of a necessary natural tendency in humans to discern patterns and then compartmentalize to save mental resources, and time. However, in the Woke Post-Lib Cultist it is terrifyingly pathological and deleterious both to the individual and the society in which they exist.

I need to expound on the “credentialism” part a bit as well, but maybe I’ll save it for an actual post since I have to run.