A basic asymmetry between far left and far right is that they fight for different different things at different Maslow levels. Far right fights for recognition at love/belonging/esteem levels, far left for material necessity at physiological/security level.
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Wasn't talking about SJWs. That's a loud but shallow icing layer on top of the basic leftism cake
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this is why I'm a leftist sympathetic to the right AND SJWs. "intersectional third positionism" will be the first seriously and deliberately Maslow-layered politics
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heh, interestingly I'm a left-libertarian sympathetic to reactionaries because liberal politics is already foundationally Maslow-layered and that's exactly what's wrong with it. what I want is a serious and deliberate *left* program to *overthrow* the Maslow hierarchy
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Maslow-layered politics is Hobbesian & Hobbesian politics can lead nowhere but to submission to Leviathan
but the only serious opposition to Leviathan is from the far right and that's unsatisfactory bc the world they'd replace it with would be *worse* for most of us
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This seems incoherent. If there’s any psychological truth to Maslow it is meaningless to try to “overthrow” it. Going from Maslow to concluding leviathan is... silly. Maslow in some sense applies to all 100k years of history. Leviathanesque monarchies account for 2k at most
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Projecting the structure of individual psyche to society is just one way to make super-Dunbar egregores. Many ways to skin this cat. Politics can be Maslow based without society having a Maslow-leviathan structure with externalized self-actualization


