"It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one."
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Put another way, the truth is the truth even if only one person discovers it, an observation that seems self evident but one that is nevertheless warred against endlessly by authoritarians of all stripes.
As I’ve tried to explain for over a decade, the left has every reason to turn interpretation into a “democratizing” endeavor: doing so allows them to mobilize politicized “interpretive communities” that rely on manufactured consent and the will to power to rejigger “truths” to bend to their whims, and in so doing, to rob the individual of legitimate meaning making — that act of projecting the individual will into existence — by assuming the role of meaning’s ultimate deciders. Those who control meaning control everything.
To call this collectivizing impluse hive-minded is to do a grave injustice to bees. Because with bees, the behavior is driven by a kind of genetic memory.
— Whereas the human has the free will to break from the hive and assert the kind of individualism that, at its grandest, can cause entire paradigm shifts, fundamentally altering a prevailing epistemology. See, eg., “Independence, The Declaration of”.
The left despises such abilities, because the individual and his free will are a constant threat to the totalitarian impulse that they so willfully follow. The individual is the Utopian’s fly in the ointment. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the ass.
Go ahead. Do some research. Count the leftists who are actively trying to promote a fatalist conceit, to convince humans that their free will is an illusion, and that therefore the entirety of Enlightenment humanism has been a fraud, creating a social dynamic — made manifest in the US as founded — from which they aim to rescue us.
Now. Back to my hole. Away from all the “reasonable” and “pragmatic” people who fret over things like “electability” and who stand for nothing but power and the jealous protection of their own egos.
Oh. And yippy-ki-yay, mother fuckers.
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