This sentence speaks volumes: "for someone to have an unmystified view of systemic oppression does not intrinsically or necessarily enjoin that person to any specific train of epistemological or narrative consequences" (127).
In other words, if the injustice you face does not anger you, it does not mobilize you, but you have critical consciousness anyway--how do you explain that? How is that some people (academics, activists, philosophers, politicians, educators) get motivated onto a specific train of epistemological or narrative consequence? The answer is pretty straightforward for Sedgewick: "Paranoia knows some things well and others poorly" (128). Or following Kleinian analysis, it is a position, not a diagnosis. And because it is a position, there is possibility.
