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[–]Flesh 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

left/right is a useless mental model.

It's worse than useless; it's actively misleading.

How can anyone think that a one-dimensional line is the best metaphor for understanding different ideologies with different policies, identities, mythologies, priorities, economics, and more?

[–]useless_aether[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

the way i see it, there is only radicalism, and its called this or that as needed by the momentary needs of the all encompassing hegelian dialectic.

hitler was presented as far right only because the soviets already held the far left label. without these antagonistic pairs, there is no hegelian dialectic, therefore they must be maintained in the eyes of the public at all costs.

imo, a more realistic political divide is between the radicals and the conservatives.

in biology, the perfect analogy would be the dynamics between the free radicals and the antioxidants :-)

[–]Flesh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

You're skeptical about conventional wisdom, but attracted to unorthodox ideas. An unfailing mark of homo neophilus. The human race is not divided into the irrational and the rational, as some idealists think. All humans are irrational, but there are two different kinds of irrationally— those who love old ideas and hate and fear new ones, and those who despise old ideas and joyfully embrace new ones. Homo neophobus and homo neophilus. Neophobus is the original human stock, the stock that hardly changed at all for the first four million years of human history. Neophilus is the creative mutation that has been popping up at regular intervals during the past million years, giving the race little forward pushes, the kind you give a wheel to make it spin faster and faster. Neophilus makes a lot of mistakes, but he or she moves. They live life the way it should be lived, ninety-nine percent mistakes and one percent viable mutations. Everyone in my organization is neophilus, George. That's why we're so far ahead of the rest of the human race. Concentrated neophilus influences, without any neophobe dilution. We make a million mistakes, but we move so fast that none of them catch up with us. Before you get any deeper, George, I'd like you to become one of us.

[–]useless_aether[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

yeah, the commies are satanists

[–]Flesh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

[–]useless_aether[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

not really. the gnostic sects, sufi orders, mystery babylon religion, baal worship etc with their child sacrifices, paedophilia, sodomy, cannibalism, incest and all amorality imaginable, were the precursor of modern communism.

they are seeing sin as a liberating act and they hate god for locking us into this material world. if you look at what the liberals are trying to normalize, you will have to admit nothing changed through the ages. eg thats why rules for radicals is dedicated to lucifer and that is why the united nations publishing house is lucis (used to be lucifer) trust. and we know the un is just a bunch of secular marxists run by the satanic elites and the jesuit vatican.

[–]Flesh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Everyone I don't like is a Satanist

[–]useless_aether[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

thats a childish argument

[–]Flesh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

yes it is

[–]useless_aether[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

admitting it is the first step to recovery! :-)