tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3623603988319454163.post6853889266173903271..comments2023-03-24T01:22:04.280-07:00Comments on Poseidon Awoke: Dodging LeftwardPoseidonAwokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806975386605873723noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3623603988319454163.post-2605900880555854162014-11-07T16:57:09.249-08:002014-11-07T16:57:09.249-08:00I responded in another post:
http://poseidonawoke...I responded in another post: <br />http://poseidonawoke.blogspot.com/2014/11/dear-butch-am-i-leftest.htmlPoseidonAwokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14806975386605873723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3623603988319454163.post-48289394088029088012014-11-07T11:29:22.894-08:002014-11-07T11:29:22.894-08:00I like that you did your homework.
Couple things...I like that you did your homework. <br /><br />Couple things: <br /><br />Just because I support gender equality, revolution, re-engineering society to mitigate climate change, and i'm against the plunder and domination of vulnerable populations by dominant institutions doesn't mean in "leftist", at least not how I understand it. Why? Because I don't see the world through the prism of high school poli-sci heuristics. Those are your labels and lists, and that is the simplistic framework upon which you want to demarcate things and people to create your in-group. Yeah for you. But ‘Left/right’ is meaningless to me, and so I refuse your categories and rhetoric and all the bullshit antagonisms and logics (decisional binary sets) that go with it. Ideology is not my focus and ultimately meaningless to me – although unavoidable in subtle ways. <br />I’m a pragmatist and an empiricist. So I’m ‘against’ all things damaging to the human (and other) species and ‘for’ all things that might lead to a more health inducing arrangement of populations. Those are my guiding commitments. So I’m not lying I’m just refusing your game. Period. <br /><br />I’m against the Koch bros because they put profit over ecosystems and do some in illegal and brutal ways. I’m against Marxism because it puts bureaucracy and ideology over people. I’m for reorganizing the economy to decrease carbon emission in order to mitigate global warming. I’m against involuntary taxes (socialism) because it consolidates money in the hands of wayward institutions. I’m for small government. I’m against financial oligarchy. I’m for valuing the family and individual responsibility. I’m against identity politics and the culture of blame. I'm for collectivising modes of production (for efficiency). I'm against fundamentalism. <br /><br />And I draw from a lot of sources – left and right, but mostly empirical studies. Doesn’t mean I am committed to every organization or theoretical stance I re-tweet or draw from. Life is messy and so is one’s intellectual growth. SO where do these commitments put me on your color by number chart? Left-right? <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09718138217801350798noreply@blogger.com