The Far Left and Far Right are both conspiracy theory driven, but are opposites
The Far Left and Far Right are both conspiracy theory driven, but are opposites.
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The Far Left are what I call “God-followers”:
The Far Left tends to believe great GOODNESS in the world is only due to the actions of a centralized cabal — the “God Cabal” — intentionally pushing goodness on the world through smart top-down policies and interventions. In the absence of these policies, the world would mostly be bad.
Free markets and free expression, each which works via decentralized mechanisms, are bad, and any good coming from them is due to the policies of the God Cabal.
For Covid, the good that occurred was due to their interventions.
In conflicts between strong and weak, while the world is by and large bad (outside of the God Cabal), the least bad are those who are weak, with the least agency. These are the “victims” that the Far Left sides with. For 9/11 the weak were the Islamists, and so the U.S. must have deserved it. For 7/10, the weak were again the Islamists, and so Israel deserved it.
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The Far-Right are what I call “Demon-Battlers”:
The Far Right, on the other hand, tends to believe great BADNESS in the world is only due to the actions of a centralized cabal — the “Demon Cabal” — intentionally pushing evil on the world through sophisticated top-down subversive manipulation. In the absence of these evil influences, the world would mostly be good.
Truly free markets and free expression, each which works via decentralized mechanisms, are good, and any bad coming from them is due to the manipulations of the Demon Cabal (which does happen a lot).
For Covid, the bad that occurred was because the Demon Cabal engineered the whole thing. Not just the interventions, but the emergency itself, the virus (if there even are viruses), etc. And it was engineered so as to do a Great Reset, put chips in us, depopulate, etc.
In conflicts between strong and weak, while the world is by and large good, the least good are those who are strong, with the most agency. These are the oppressors that are enjoined with or being manipulated by the Demon Cabal. For 9/11 the strong was the U.S., which itself — controlled by the Demon Cabal — brought the towers down. For 7/10 the strong was Israel, which itself massacred Israeli’s civilians (or perhaps there wasn’t a massacre at all), under the influence of the Demon Cabal.
Point here is that we tend to characterize “Left” and “Right” differently in different contexts.
Question is, what more general characterization might explain all the associations?
For the Left, it has to explain not just socialism and equality of outcome, but, for example, Covid interventions, and siding with radical Islam in 9/11 and 10/7.
For the Right, it has to explain not just support for capitalism but, among many things, the *very* far Right tendency to be basically against capitalism, the Plandemic-ers, and believing 9/11 and 10/7 were psyops.
The (non-far) Left has a general tendency to see good in the world coming from well-intentioned centralized policies, and bad coming from too much decentralization and freedom.
The (non-far) Right has a general tendency to see bad in the world coming from well-intentioned centralized policies, and good coming from decentralization and freedom.
Both are “reasonable,” but the “far” versions of each become entirely crazy and dangerous.