The most interesting thing to me is how Wil's antagonists seem to have successfully taken advantage of Wil's mythos (consciously or not) to create cognitive dis

The most interesting thing to me is how Wil's antagonists seem to have successfully taken advantage of Wil's mythos (consciously or not) to create cognitive dissonance. I'm not sure Wil gets that he's never going to have any inner peace while holding on to a mythos that regards him as subhuman because of things he can't control like his race or sex. Some of the thoughts in that post feel like they're from another century. Almost ike reading Jonathan Edwards' diary, where any time he catches himself feeling happy he has to go off an meditate on how he is but a lowly worm deserving of death. In both cases it's actually pretty self-absorbed, but at least Edwards had the good sense not to complain to other people (or even to himself in his diary) that the metaphorical hair shirt he'd put on was uncomfortable. In that sort of mythos, the only peace the righteous can expect is a life of suffering, since happiness and success are signs of worldliness (or, in Wil's case privilege).