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There's a very simple litmus test for whether an idea is right or left of center. If someone is trying to convince you that you have more agency than you think, it's rightist. If they're trying to convince you that you have less agency than you think, it's leftist. Both bad.
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You should have accurate calibration of how much agency you have, which is obviously going to vary by the position you have in society, so right off the bat, anyone trying to push a generic message trying to drive the agency estimate up or down has a societal agenda
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I would instead say this more accurately describes an authoritarian vs. libertarian, up/down dichotomy. Also, the degree of this definitely varies from country to country. There’s a big “othering” (finding the “evil-to-be-destroyed”) effect in the West that complicates this.
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