I would whole-heartedly agree with the above post in terms of reconciling Postcolonial Theory with the act of living outside of the post-secondary culture and literature. Don't be too hard on yourself. Theorists such as Fanon inculcated their theories in very traumatic, epistemologically and ontologically violent conditions. We have the privilege of reading these works as part of a body of literature rather than a seemingly isolated rant to an imagined audience, and I think this gives us different challenges to overcome. Obviously I'm not advocating a blasé, blissfully ignorant perspective but I think we should be careful not to become cynical. Pessimism at least generates anxiety which can be used discursively.

At the same time, we have to be careful about the ways in which our history as embodied by our family isn't necessarily a product of wholehearted acceptance of a colonized mentality. At the same time we meta-reflect our relationship with Postcolonial Theory, we shouldn't assume a bougis superiority. Yes, our family might be the neocolonial model of the colonized mind and body buy, at some point, they too wrestled with a philosophical rupture between what they believed growing up and the tribulations of the "adult world." Sometimes this manifests rather, and I use this term tentatively, humanly with responsibilities such as financial literacy and adult professionalism. Other times it becomes more complicated. For example, whiteness and the privilege it provides might be something that reaches beyond educational boundaries. But, you could argue college enacts its own "indoctrination" which the people otherwise conceptualized as "colonized" would conceptualize as a greater concession to colonialism.