Coming to Terms with the Past Two Centuries

In general terms, the philosophy of modernist, straight-wing liberalism (i.e. “classical liberalism” or “Enlightenment liberalism”) probably reached its height in the late 1700s in Britain, France, Holland, and America. The philosophy of liberalism was promoted mostly by upper-class intellectuals and the well-educated, but it massively made its way into the middle class and popular culture too, especially by around the mid-1800s.

Ever since the liberal apex of about the 1780s, the world has been a philosophical and cultural battleground between the post-modernist left-wing progressives, the pre-modernist right-wing conservatives, and the modernist straight-wing liberals. The first two groups are absolutely dominant, currently. Still, the liberals have been rising recently, especially since the revolutionary liberal philosopher Ayn Rand came to prominence in the 1960s.

But maybe the names of these three ideologies and their derivative cultures are mistaken and misleading.

It may be more enlightening and useful for humankind to call them left-wing regressives, and right-wing reactionaries, and up-wing liberators. After all, when it comes to our noble and magnificent Western Civilization, leftists today are hugely dedicated to mankind’s destruction. Rightist are hugely dedicated to mankind’s retreat. And straightists (if I may use such a term) are entirely dedicated to mankind’s triumph.

So why flatter the lefties by calling them “progressives” (progressing to where?) when they’re really regressives who seek worldwide destruction and even annihilation? Why flatter the righties by calling them conservatives (conserving what?) when they’re really reactionaries who seek worldwide retreat and even surrender?

I think the "straighties", “uppies”, “northies”, “risers”, “ascenders”, or some such need to find a better language. They need something more powerful with which to attack and eliminate their leftist and rightist enemies.