Through the overwhelming calamity that has befallen expanding and contracting human societies over the course of several millenia, the word "greed," much like other negative words that denote some sort of failing, has become huge and monstrous in presence: it evokes expansive emotions. Greed, which becomes all the more irresistible the further it is set in motion, is a vice that historically has been responsible for great catastrophe.
And so to judge someone's mistakes with this word is to overwhelm them in turn. The word, as symbol to connote this historical state of affairs, is imbued with all of the gargantuan affect of great catastrophe.
But then there is nothing to be done about this. Because the Western subject's great fear of judgement - as expressed in Camus' The Fall for example - grows all the more as the subject's ecstasy grows, due to the historical modalities with which that ecstasy is arrived at. It is a fear of ecstasy's shadow, a duality that is produced by the extreme oscillations in power that typify Western history.
The higher the subject climbs, the longer the subject remains suspended over the void, the greater and more terrible the fall seems. And the language takes on the affect that permeates these movements. The nature of white fragility becomes slightly clearer.
