Our culture has embraced a form of scientism that excludes all mythical, philosophical, and religious narratives from the public debate except one: the myth of never-ending technological progress
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And in this story of technological ascension, there is only one identity that center-leftism permits. Or, as Ambrose Bierce so memorably wrote in his devil’s dictionary, an African American is a [redacted] who votes our way.
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We need to understand why both the right and the left feel the constant suspicion that they are losing the culture war very badly, and this will require sympathy—or actually, empathy—for the devil
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To the right, both moral & political good are found in alignment with tradition, which is the revelation of uncreated values independent of arbitrary will. As good things endure through history and bad things fall away, These values are revealed
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To the right, what is sinister both morally & politically is the rejection, not only of historical superstructures but of their underlying values, which are defamed as MERELY oppressive ideologies imposed by the dominant classes
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This is how the right sees the world, and from this vantage point they are losing very badly. On the other hand...
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To the left, the only moral principle must be dissolution of hierarchy. Leftism does not see leftism as ideology, and believes authority and ideology prevent us from realizing our destiny as a single, united humanity existing in a higher plane of moral and spiritual cooperation
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To the old left, evil is the political right, understood as "management technique at the service of the strongest,” regardless of what ideologies are used to justify this management
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From this perspective, managerial hierarchy has coopted egalitarian ideals by commodifying them, and one sees
@wokecapital as a victory of the right over the left, as a monster wearing the corpse of egalitarianism as a skinsuit3 replies 5 retweets 55 likesShow this thread -
There was a point in history when leftism was actually quite a reasonable-seeming position and when the living conditions of industrial laborers were so horrible that some kind of radical action really was preferable
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Replying to @Outsideness
Yeah, I didn’t quite believe it when I said it
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