Individual Lives vs. the Right and the Left

 

Life and the Individual are sacred. No-one should dare to touch them. No-one for any reason should dare to trespass upon, violate, attack, or destroy them.

But right-wing conservatives and left-wing progressives disagree. Philosophical Rightists don’t worship life or the individual. They consider "god" to be sacred. And they selflessly devote themselves to serving it.

Philosophical Leftists don’t worship life or the individual either. They consider "the collective" to be sacred. And they selflessly devote themselves to serving it.

Both evil ideologies oppose individual rights. This is because both the irrational, illiberal Right and the irrational, illiberal Left reject personal greatness and happiness. Right-wing conservatives and left-wing progressives contemptuously dismiss individual lives as unimportant or meaningless. Unless the insect-like individual is immolating himself in servitude to some Rightist or Leftist ideal, he doesn’t matter.

Of course, both false and failed philosophies solemnly promise that in the Neverland of some distant future, individuals will finally get to live in some "heaven" or "social utopia". But the Holy Individual and his irreplaceable existence today are trivial or worthless.

Both Right and Left assure us that in pursuit of some remote, delusional, conservative, or progressive ideal, the individual may essentially be stomped upon. Based upon their supposedly lofty and noble philosophies, Rightists and Leftists tell us that the Sacred Self and his irreplaceable existence may be decently ground into the dirt and destroyed.