Are Lefties Confrontational?

To Identify as a Llama... 

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Let’s Start Off With a Touch of Madness

Moderate folk with political leanings to the left of the spectrum often signal morally driven behaviours, but they can go too far with it! One labour party MP said Brits can enjoy their right to identify as a hoofed mammal, I'm sure it was a Llama! Regardless of that, if we simply consider left-wing movements such as the degrowth movement, for example, we might see a real point here. 'We shouldn't focus on growth!' Is the general idea, but every modern economy needs growth; people need the innovation it brings! We could marvel all day at these political contradictions, but the reality is—it’s not good for you! 

What if Out-Lefting Lefties Requires a Power Left Philosophy? 

Why not counter, or maybe out-nut these shenanigans with equally colourful ideas like being 'realised by experience'. Let's imagine, for example, that even though our human or individual person, 'that does often seem' to have a name and an identity, are all illusory constructs. Take it a step further—eliminate words like ‘you’ or ‘I,’ dismissing them as relics of ‘the old system.’ Everyone could be called something new age, like: ‘XP’ because apparently, that signifies our experiece 'man'. It’s just supposed to virtue signal our higher levels of awareness but really it simply lets a few people feel deep for five minutes. But really, new age ideas like this have little to do with being anti-imperial, anti-capitalist, or anything remotely useful. It’s just a way to flaunt some inner ‘essence’ without actually doing a damn thing that matters. Is that out-lefting?

Are We On The Right Track? 

Strange ideologies and movements are selectively based on oversimplified philosophy. Years ago the term 'queer' was a slur and we were taught to avoid such harsh words when we were kids, but LGBTQ+ has provided a vague re-interpretation: it can mean a political stance, any sexual orientation or gender, as well as straight or in a non monogamous relationship. Yeah, this only adds to the confusion. It’s just as easy to highlight absurdities as it is to create new ones—the cycle never ends.

It's like we see with pronoun pressure groups, change agents can flirt with the idea of legal recognition for their self-defined identity categories such as mythkin or therian but they downplay gender itself a social construct. People want to be legally empowered to identify as a rabbit or unicorn, for instance. Again, what would this actually accomplish? No one finds fulfillment in munching grass all day. This is the colourful hard left! Compelling characters mostly down to their radicalism and over-clocked sense of morality, which can boil over into casual anti-fascist fascist-like control. 

The Cost of Creating Our Own Morals and Systems

If we served up my lefty-style philosophy, the one promoting an inner experience that disavows the so-called person, it could create unnecessary social problems. It could be as troubling as the current pronoun pandemonium! Immediately, it would recreationalise promiscuity and hypersexual pursuits. If life is taken to be a transitory affair folks wouldn't care as much about their health. The left have people who identify as many things from dogs, dragons and mixed genders, this shows how progressives aren't necessarily always making progression. 

This is Getting Silly Now Time to Stop

We could cause increased risk taking, hedonism, an increased flexibility of morality. Murder could be challenged in court: casting doubt on the framework of mind and physical body identity. If unlawful killing is not proven to destroy vague and unknown principles of soul or consciousness, people might argue that homicide is void ab initio! Void from the start. I'd like to think we'll never give under-developed ideologies the 'light' of day, but we do it too readily.