I often type, and just sort of watch what happens. That will manifest here as meandering thought. It’s like taking a walk through the forest. I am constantly going places I have never been, and often those without paths.
With regard to the previous post, I was wondering how I moved from socialists to Muslims, then it hit me: they share a distaste for Liberalism. People have often wondered how supposed “liberals”–who for example preach the rights of women–can countenance the many abuses of human rights that happen in places like Cuba and Saudi Arabia.
And it hit me: they share foundational autocratic tendencies. I heard on the radio the other day that the number one show right now among Democrats is Dexter (for Republicans it is “Modern Family”, about which I know nothing), and I thought about it. What does Dexter do? He murders evil. He attacks it, physically, without debating it. And I think that basic idea resonates deeply in the leftist psyche.
Who are you when you can never affirm a positive moral view in a condition of ambiguity or competing moral narratives? Who are you when every time someone asserts a right to x, y, or z, you have to listen? When no line is too far? When you can be pushed around everywhere? When your only value, tolerance, is implicitly a death pact with whoever has a better idea of who they are than you?
You are nothing. And being nothing makes psychologically normal people abnormal. It induces hatred and resentment, and a feverish quest for a moral absolute, sanctified in either figurative or literal blood. Such is the documented history of Leftism, which is accepted in full by the true believers: the French Revolution, Soviet Russia, Cuba, Maoist China.
Very often, I work intuitively. I have already seen this, and called it “Cultural Sadeism”, but from time to time a slightly larger piece of the puzzle emerges.