> This fact creates some irresolvable tensions on the left. Suffering, deprivation, and oppression generate unique identities, culture, and communities that will be dramatically changed, if not eradicated, by leftist campaigns to alleviate suffering, deprivation, and oppression.
This, I think, explains the trend in people claiming to want to reduce suffering and opression while simultaneously pushing for policies that don't have any evidence of being effective solutions. As an example, the trend on the left of hating capitalism and pushing for communism. Most communists I've met claim to have very good aims of reducing suffering and oppression. But none of them want to talk about evidence of the outcomes of communist experiments. The simple explanation is that actually alleviating suffering would leave them without the very thing that substansiates the cultures of suffering that they rely on for political power.
Clearly humanity's transition to post-scarcity has been... uneven. Here we have a petri dish containing an actual lack-of-scarcity within which to observe the development of a communist-ish "market". I, for one, welcome this new reference point from which to extrapolate.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 15.5 ms ] threadThis, I think, explains the trend in people claiming to want to reduce suffering and opression while simultaneously pushing for policies that don't have any evidence of being effective solutions. As an example, the trend on the left of hating capitalism and pushing for communism. Most communists I've met claim to have very good aims of reducing suffering and oppression. But none of them want to talk about evidence of the outcomes of communist experiments. The simple explanation is that actually alleviating suffering would leave them without the very thing that substansiates the cultures of suffering that they rely on for political power.