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Connor Charchuk's avatar

Leftists tend to commodify everything, and once they extract the commodity from an experience, they learn how to game reality to access the commodity directly, without any consideration for the stuff they throw away.

Love and connection are viewed as commodities, and any way of accessing these states are measured in their efficiency and reliability of accessing these states. Hard drugs like MDMA are more valid than marriage because they are better at accessing a state of euphoria. Circling is de facto good because it feels good, full stop.

Beyond that, leftists have zero regard for Chesterton's Fences. Actually, that's not true. A good leftist is a Fence Terminator, programmed to seek and destroy every fence in sight. Monogamy? Destroy. Marriage? Destroy. Family? Destroy. Gender roles? Destroy.

Anyone inclined to uphold the faintest hint of tradition is the enemy. That is in essence what gets one labelled far-right. And the more the progressives strip away culture and tradition, the more inclined I become to protect it.

Anyways, wonderful essay. There's a lot more there than meets the eye.

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Indian Bronson's avatar

Tremendous post — maybe the quality of a State can be glimpsed from the quality of boyfriends and wives and friendships among the regime's people. Virginities lost in Hoxha's defunct bunkers, Romanian orphanages, leftover women, incels & roasties, ISIS sex slaves, hikkikomori. Where are the least dysfunctional marriages the most common?

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