Is Leftism a Mental Disorder?
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Rest assured it has been studied for many ages. The entire conflict of man resides in the bowels of this design.
I like to imagine early human life, simple cave life for example, in this system we can assume that there was some form of leadership and with that it is likely that some form of 'might is right' logic prevailed, because mixed in this human is the desire to maintain self preservation. Given all the inputs we keep refining these control mechanisms preying on the weak and needy to embolden the forward direction.
Ah, regrettably I see that we differ here. I have come to very different conclusions about the story of the human race, and how that story shapes human affairs to this very day. I'd link you to researchers holding a similar worldview to mine but there aren't any.
I'm sure you'll be seeing bits of it in other posts. I try to wedge it in where I can :)
Feel free to ensure I am looped in, I am always interested in new information and ideas.
As far as my current understanding or beliefs, they are based on the little information I have managed to collect thus far, and in saying that much of it is in flux on what is seemingly a daily basis.
Will do!
And I can't tell you how long a period I went through after I discovered r/conspiracy, just scrolling through it every day and going, "Wait--what?!?!?" a dozen times.
The signal-to-noise over there has gone way down over time, so the silver lining is I can get through browsing quicker.