Western Man for 2600 Years

 

* right vs. left vs. straight (in overall philosophy). Both rightism and leftism are deviant beliefs which have lost their way toward liberalism, and are no longer on the direct, straight path to truth, goodness, greatness, and happiness.

* religious reactionism vs. collectivist regressivism vs. individualist liberalism (in philosophy, culture, lifestyle, approach, and attitude). Both rightism and leftism hate and reject humanity as people currently are, attack them viciously, and see man as fundamentally evil and deserving of destruction.

* surrealism vs. subrealism vs. realism (in metaphysics). Both rightism and leftism see the world as unreal, unknowable, incomprehensible, shadowy, and a type of dream and delusion.

* supernaturalism vs. subnaturalism vs. naturalism (in metaphysics). Both rightism and leftism believe ideas about Nature exist, but Nature itself does not.

* faith and dogma vs. subjectivism and relativism vs. reason and science (in epistemology). Both rightism and leftism are irrational and nonsensical, literally and figuratively, in the formation of their ideas and beliefs.

* ambiguous nebulous uncertainty vs. ambiguous nebulous uncertainty vs. definite absolute certainty (in epistemology). Both rightism and leftism know that they know nothing and that they have no means of acquiring knowledge. They argue that the straightists, who actually claim to know something, are expressing arbitrary, close-minded dogmatism and empty, blind faith.

* self-sacrifice and servitude to god vs. self-sacrifice and servitude to the masses vs. self-preservation and dedication to achievement, greatness, pleasure, and happiness (in ethics). Both rightism and leftism secretly reject and hate man, and seek to make him suffer and die.

* unselfishness and charity vs. unselfishness and charity vs. selfishness and greed (in ethics). Both rightism and leftism oppose caring for the Sacred Self and placing Him first; both regard as evil the desire and pursuit of personal values.

* Welfare statism with lots of fascism forcing you to be “good” and serve mostly god, but also somewhat your family and friends vs. welfare statism with lots of socialism forcing you to be “good” and serve mostly the masses, but also somewhat your coworkers and neighbors vs. personal liberty, social libertarianism, and economic capitalism allowing you to be fully free, serve yourself, follow your dreams, and become as good and great as you can be (in politics). Both rightism and leftism favor a “benevolent dictatorship” which strips away all your rights, stomps on your face, makes you a slave, and kills you dead.

* pseudo-heroic, falsely-dynamic art portraying some “great” man serving and self-sacrificing himself to his religion vs. pseudo-heroic, falsely-dynamic art portraying some “great” man serving and self-sacrificing himself to his collective vs. genuinely-heroic and magnificently-dynamic art portraying some truly great man living for his own sake, fulfilling his destiny, and energetically triumphing over his evil religious and collectivist enemies, as well as over his relatively good rivals, and also the weak and inferior versions of himself (in esthetics). Both rightism and leftism almost completely fail to educate, enlighten, inspire, and uplift their poor, pitiful, miserable followers with their dumb, low, cynical, pessimistic, mediocre, petty, sad, corrupt, loser, defeatist art.

* humble resignation and quiet acceptance of defeat in the service of god vs. humble resignation and quiet acceptance of defeat in the service of the masses vs. defiant, resilient, dynamic, heroic victory and triumph, despite all odds, and against all enemies and obstacles (in spirituality). Both rightism and leftism ultimately kill off all your hopes and dreams as you live out your ridiculous, wretched, pathetic life, and you end up squashed like a bug.