1. People point out that Harry Potter is traditional and right-wing. It is set in a boarding school, it’s aristocratic, concerns magic, and is obsessed with bloodlines(!). Yet, it is beloved by the liberal left. Why?
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7. Left liberalism of this nature is based on the idea that there is a hierarchy, but that the hierarchy should be giving away more to other people and helping them (in this respect Jordan Peterson is merely a proto-SJW; he thinks the redistribution should be different).
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8. But we’ve reached the stage where left liberalism wants to kill the golden goose. It wants to do away with the original vanguard element and let that vanguard become a despised minority—although it has made this move about two decades too soon ideologically.
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It’s more than that, I think. In the absence of belief in an Eschaton in which all earthly wrongs are righted, all their actions here on earth become a secular theodicy, i. e. ‘We have to make everyone equal or else the martyrs of Auschwitz/Jim Crow will have suffered in vain!’.
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For them the Problem of Evil belongs to history and is to be solved by technology, social or otherwise. They fail to perceive the capacity for evil inherent in human nature.
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Yes. What I call technocratic liberalism is a secular religion. This is why I support “traditional” religion. I think humans make up religions whatever they do, but the ones made up on the spot tend to be awful. The old ones have survival value, although are occasionally silly.
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@nntaleb 's Lindy effect. My own convictions are more directly doxastic (i.e. Christianity is a true revealed religion); yet even before my conversion, I preferred it to any modern substitute for similar reasons. -
Yes, my thinking is informed by Taleb & John Gray—& by the philosophes, Voltaire thought his servants should believe lest they slit his throat! Practically, I’m torn between Xianity (culturally made me) & a quasi-Buddhist pantheistic approach—couldn’t be culturally Buddhist.
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