The left is defined by having two legs in the enlightenment. The right is defined by having one leg in, one leg out.
In your revealed lifestyle, if you believe there is more than “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity” as a set of grand values or even that one of those values is kind-of stupid, you will find yourself edging ever rightward.
Socialism and Communism and Baby’s-First Anarchism and Fat-Faggy-Fuck Fascism (Anti-Fascism) are just trying to achieve those values that have been made impossible by the current elite methodology, I.E. Latter-Day Capitalismus Gibber-Jockey, Mumbo-Jumbo trite.
The most common way this settles is that you have an oppressor-oppressed narrative fighting against a civilizational-barbarism narrative.
Oppressors stop you from being free, they are stronger than you, and they are not your friend; They are the anti-Liberal. Whereas the civilizational view understands that barbarism stops us from being us. They will rid us of what values we love.
I see I’m 2 years late, but I’ve had similar thoughts. I read The Master and His Emissary and I was thinking about autism maybe partly being a result of what you’re talking about (I can’t remember if McGhilchrist actually connects autism to overly left brained or if it was just schizophrenia and I filled in the autism). I was thinking that the process you describe might also be sped up by the fact that until pretty recently, people would’ve tended to marry and have children with others in their close proximity, and so those with more extreme personality traits would’ve likely paired up with less extreme people and their kids would’ve regressed to the mean. Now we not only move to places with others like us, choose jobs so we’re around others like us, but also sort ourselves online with others like us. I also wonder if a population’s average personality type may biologically change much quicker than we think?
This is brilliant. @martianwyrdlord wrote a piece with a similar thrust a while back that I remember reading. Perfect for the LARPetarian friends I still have who think that "oh it's just PoLiTiCs".
People follow incentives; and it turns out the majority of people don't want to think for themselves.
"Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?”
― Gilles Deleuze
People want the illusion of freedom, without the responsibility of it.
The left is defined by having two legs in the enlightenment. The right is defined by having one leg in, one leg out.
In your revealed lifestyle, if you believe there is more than “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity” as a set of grand values or even that one of those values is kind-of stupid, you will find yourself edging ever rightward.
Socialism and Communism and Baby’s-First Anarchism and Fat-Faggy-Fuck Fascism (Anti-Fascism) are just trying to achieve those values that have been made impossible by the current elite methodology, I.E. Latter-Day Capitalismus Gibber-Jockey, Mumbo-Jumbo trite.
The most common way this settles is that you have an oppressor-oppressed narrative fighting against a civilizational-barbarism narrative.
Oppressors stop you from being free, they are stronger than you, and they are not your friend; They are the anti-Liberal. Whereas the civilizational view understands that barbarism stops us from being us. They will rid us of what values we love.
But all that is just my drunken thoughts.
I see I’m 2 years late, but I’ve had similar thoughts. I read The Master and His Emissary and I was thinking about autism maybe partly being a result of what you’re talking about (I can’t remember if McGhilchrist actually connects autism to overly left brained or if it was just schizophrenia and I filled in the autism). I was thinking that the process you describe might also be sped up by the fact that until pretty recently, people would’ve tended to marry and have children with others in their close proximity, and so those with more extreme personality traits would’ve likely paired up with less extreme people and their kids would’ve regressed to the mean. Now we not only move to places with others like us, choose jobs so we’re around others like us, but also sort ourselves online with others like us. I also wonder if a population’s average personality type may biologically change much quicker than we think?
This is brilliant. @martianwyrdlord wrote a piece with a similar thrust a while back that I remember reading. Perfect for the LARPetarian friends I still have who think that "oh it's just PoLiTiCs".