The old New Left

[ian_evil]

The youth of the 1960s and 70s watched their activist leaders get shot, beaten and arrested. They protested aggressively, non-stop and sometimes violently against the Vietnam War, and were ready to clash with police and politicians for radical ideologies of change. These same people who gave birth to organizations like the Earth Liberation Front,

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Lookin' for stuff to feel guilty about.

[mekh]

Dr. Kacyznski argues that Leftists are participating in social movements to compensate for their lack of personal power. He also writes that many Leftist leaders believe that the moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, act, or feel in a completely moral way. In fact, the burden of acting morally causes them to constantly deceive themselves about their own motives and moral explanations for feelings and actions that in reality have a non-moral origin. Hell, even Peter Singer felt guilty about spending the winter with his mother who was dying of cancer instead of going to volunteer in Africa.

Re: Lookin' for stuff to feel guilty about.

[flintultrasparc]

Social movements could all be described as the cooperation of people who lack personal power. A labor union exists, to pull the small amount of workers have at the point of production against the personal economic power of an owner, etc....

Conflicts about morality are by no means limited to "the left". Nor is self-deception. Nor is hypocrisy.

That doesn't stop their from being morality in politics. What those morals are, is a matter of some debate.

Politics doesn't seem to be based on personality types or psychological hangups. Though such things do make for ad hominem fodder.

[anonymous]

how does my generation sit this one out?

[lorele]

They said there's something about this particular part of the Age of Aquarius, which relates to Scorpio heavily. Scorpio, in another sense, means "to be silent". However, silence has its own depth, under which the emotions condense the one who sits under the pressure to develop a strength through continuity. Supposedly, it also represents change (death, or rather, transformation and transmutation of energy--since energy is never destroyed nor created, so to speak, it only changes form).

The undercurrents of emotion are the tides of change.
The darkness merely hides the light.

Or maybe I'm just full of it, and trying to seek meaning in a world without any.