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Not sure how to respond to that other than to mention this:
‘The Political Spectrum: The Correct Delineation’
“If we want to navigate through complex territory, we need an accurate map.”…
See also, the URL embedded in the above article, ‘Ideological Pedigree Table of Values and Views’
…”Fortunately, there is a relatively easy way to cut through the froth of passions and heated rhetoric to get at the truth of the matter. We will do this by taking the three classes in question – tyrants, progressives and conservatives – and place them side by side. We will then look at how their values compare in regard to important issues of practical politics and philosophy. This should help clarify the situation by bringing out the underlying political pedigrees and ideological links.”…
Mr. Kohlmayer makes some good points in his article but one of the main issues with my post isn’t what kind of political philosophy some group espouses or where someone stands on the left-right political spectrum, which Kohlmayer correctly points out is outdated & useless. It’s that way too many people live in a kind of delusional & oversimplified world which allows for lazy/sloppy thinking, believing false assumptions, and spending as little time possible searching for the easy way out solution to problems which are intricate & complicated. It seems like it’s become a mass psychosis as the general population all too often falls for lies which are repeated over and over and finally accepted as mainstream thought. Far too many people are intellectually lazy and it’s now so widespread you could call it a pandemic it seems to me. People nowadays simply refuse to put much thought & effort finding answers to those tough questions about life. That is unless they’re trying to figure out how to scam someone.
But what’s really discouraging about all this is the high percentage of people supposedly on our side that fall into that category. Sure, most of those on the dark side of the force are guilty of those traits in spades, but when you realize the problem is that serious with those on our side it’s enough to make you want to give up hope and resign from humanity. Maybe it’s time to jump off this sinking ship?
Any “ism” other than individualism is tyranny, be it enforced by force; coercion; propaganda; or monopoly. In the present, society seems to be a loose hodgepodge of all of the preceding (except individualism), with the one constant being the existence of a way to coerce and control the majority- and once a degree of control is established and people get used to it, it never ceases to exist, as it’s victims will just keep building new ones if anything happens to the old.
This brings up the problem that human nature carries with it so many flaws and weaknesses. Evil people will eventually come to recognize this and will, perforce, use the opportunity to take advantage and exploit it for their own personal gain & profit and to hell with the consequences. By understanding these deficiencies in their fellow man, they will use them against him to manipulate, control and finally enslave him. And the proof of the pudding is simply to look back on history to see example after example of this phenomenon. Of course this is a paradox that philosophers have been contemplating for centuries and have yet to come up with a some kind of resolution to explain it. Guess we’ll just have to keep dealing with it as long as mankind roams the earth.
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