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    ethical: If you want to face yourself in the mirror it’s best if you do the moral and ethical thing (via /r/BlackPeopleTwitter)
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: If you want to face yourself in the mirror it’s best if you do the moral and ethical thing by Bmchris44
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    ethical: lauraantoniou:
lastxleviathan:

robotmango:

tsunderepup:

randomslasher:

pastel-selkie:

lesbianshepard:
stupid leftists and their belief in *checks notes* the intrinsic value of human life

Reblog if you would burn down the statue of liberty to save a life

Here’s the thing, though. If you asked a conservative “Would you let the statue of liberty burn to save one life?” they’d probably scoff and say no, it’s a national landmark, a treasure, a piece of too much historical importance to let it be destroyed for the sake of one measly life. 
But if you asked, “Would you let the statue of liberty burn in order to save your child? your spouse? someone you loved a great deal?” the tune abruptly changes. At the very least, there’s a hesitation. Even if they deny it, I’m willing to bet that gun to their head, the answer would be “yes.”  
The basic problem here is that people have a hard time seeing outside their own sphere of influence, and empathizing beyond the few people who are right in front of them. You’ve got your immediate family, whom you love; your friends, your acquaintances, maybe to a certain degree the people who share a status with you (your religion, your race, etc.)–but beyond that? People aren’t real. They’re theoretical. 
But a national monument? That’s real. It stands for something. The value of a non-realized anonymous life that exists completely outside your sphere of influence is clearly worth less than something that represents freedom and prosperity to a whole nation, right?
People who think like this lack the compassion to realize that everyone is in someone’s immediate sphere of influence–that everyone is someone’s lover, or brother, or parent. Everyone means the world to someone. And it’s the absolute height of selfishness to assume that their lives don’t have value just because they don’t mean the world to you. 
P.S. I would let the statue of liberty burn to save a pigeon. 



also, there is an extreme difference between what things or principles *i* personally am willing to die for, and what i would hazard others to die for. and this is a distinction i don’t think the conservative hard-right likes to face.
an example: so, as the nazis began war against france, the staff of the louvre began crating up and shipping out the artworks. it was vital to them (for many reasons) that the nazis not get their hands on the collections, and hitler’s desire for them was known, so they dispersed the objects to the four winds; one of the curators personally traveled with la gioconda, mona lisa herself, in an unmarked crate, moving at least five times from location to location to avoid detection. 
they even removed and hid the nike of samothrace, “winged victory,” which is both delicate, having been pieced back together from fragments, and incredibly heavy, weighing over three metric tons.
the curators who hid these artworks risked death to ensure that they wouldn’t fall into nazi hands. and yes, they are just paintings, just statues. but when i think about the idea of hitler capturing and standing smugly beside the nike of samothrace, a statue widely beloved as a symbol of liberty, i completely understand why someone would risk their life to prevent that. if my life was all that stood between a fascist dictator and a masterpiece that inspired millions, i would be willing to risk it. my belief in the power and necessity of art would demand i do so.
if, however, a nazi held a gun to some kid’s head (any kid!) and asked me which crate the mona lisa was in, they could have it in a heartbeat. no problem! i wouldn’t even have to think about it. being willing to risk my own life on principle doesn’t mean i’m willing to see others endangered for those same principles. 
and that is exactly where the conservative hard-right falls right the fuck down. they are, typically, entirely willing to watch others suffer for their own principles. they are perfectly okay with seeing children in cages because of their supposed belief in law and order. they are perfectly willing to let women die from pregnancy complications because of their anti-abortion beliefs. they are alright with poverty and disease on general principle because they hold the free-market sacrosanct. and i guess from their own example they would save the statue of liberty and let human beings burn instead. 
but speaking as a leftist (i’m more comfortable with socialist tbh), my principles are not abstract things that i hold aside from life, apart or above my place as a human being in a society. my beliefs arise from being a person amidst people. i don’t love art for art’s sake alone, actually! i don’t love objects because they are objects: i love them because they are artifacts of our humanity, because they communicate and connect us, because they embody love and curiosity and fear and feeling. i love art because i love people. i want universal health care because i want to see people universally cared for. i want universal basic income because people’s safety and dignity should not be determined by their economic productivity to an employer. i am anti-war and pro-choice for the same reason: i value people’s lives but also their autonomy and right to self-determination. my beliefs are not abstractions. i could never value a type of economic system that i saw hurting people, no matter how much “growth” it produced. i could never love “law and order” more than i love a child, any child, i saw trapped in a cage.
would i be willing to risk death, trying to save the statue of liberty? probably, yes. but there is no culture without people, and therefore i also believe there are no cultural treasures worth more than other people’s lives. and as far as i’m concerned the same goes for laws, or markets, or borders. 


Well said!

This is an excellent ethical discussion. 

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                ethical: lauraantoniou:
lastxleviathan:

robotmango:

tsunderepup:

randomslasher:

pastel-selkie:

lesbianshepard:
stupid leftists and their belief in *checks notes* the intrinsic value of human life

Reblog if you would burn down the statue of liberty to save a life

Here’s the thing, though. If you asked a conservative “Would you let the statue of liberty burn to save one life?” they’d probably scoff and say no, it’s a national landmark, a treasure, a piece of too much historical importance to let it be destroyed for the sake of one measly life. 
But if you asked, “Would you let the statue of liberty burn in order to save your child? your spouse? someone you loved a great deal?” the tune abruptly changes. At the very least, there’s a hesitation. Even if they deny it, I’m willing to bet that gun to their head, the answer would be “yes.”  
The basic problem here is that people have a hard time seeing outside their own sphere of influence, and empathizing beyond the few people who are right in front of them. You’ve got your immediate family, whom you love; your friends, your acquaintances, maybe to a certain degree the people who share a status with you (your religion, your race, etc.)–but beyond that? People aren’t real. They’re theoretical. 
But a national monument? That’s real. It stands for something. The value of a non-realized anonymous life that exists completely outside your sphere of influence is clearly worth less than something that represents freedom and prosperity to a whole nation, right?
People who think like this lack the compassion to realize that everyone is in someone’s immediate sphere of influence–that everyone is someone’s lover, or brother, or parent. Everyone means the world to someone. And it’s the absolute height of selfishness to assume that their lives don’t have value just because they don’t mean the world to you. 
P.S. I would let the statue of liberty burn to save a pigeon. 



also, there is an extreme difference between what things or principles *i* personally am willing to die for, and what i would hazard others to die for. and this is a distinction i don’t think the conservative hard-right likes to face.
an example: so, as the nazis began war against france, the staff of the louvre began crating up and shipping out the artworks. it was vital to them (for many reasons) that the nazis not get their hands on the collections, and hitler’s desire for them was known, so they dispersed the objects to the four winds; one of the curators personally traveled with la gioconda, mona lisa herself, in an unmarked crate, moving at least five times from location to location to avoid detection. 
they even removed and hid the nike of samothrace, “winged victory,” which is both delicate, having been pieced back together from fragments, and incredibly heavy, weighing over three metric tons.
the curators who hid these artworks risked death to ensure that they wouldn’t fall into nazi hands. and yes, they are just paintings, just statues. but when i think about the idea of hitler capturing and standing smugly beside the nike of samothrace, a statue widely beloved as a symbol of liberty, i completely understand why someone would risk their life to prevent that. if my life was all that stood between a fascist dictator and a masterpiece that inspired millions, i would be willing to risk it. my belief in the power and necessity of art would demand i do so.
if, however, a nazi held a gun to some kid’s head (any kid!) and asked me which crate the mona lisa was in, they could have it in a heartbeat. no problem! i wouldn’t even have to think about it. being willing to risk my own life on principle doesn’t mean i’m willing to see others endangered for those same principles. 
and that is exactly where the conservative hard-right falls right the fuck down. they are, typically, entirely willing to watch others suffer for their own principles. they are perfectly okay with seeing children in cages because of their supposed belief in law and order. they are perfectly willing to let women die from pregnancy complications because of their anti-abortion beliefs. they are alright with poverty and disease on general principle because they hold the free-market sacrosanct. and i guess from their own example they would save the statue of liberty and let human beings burn instead. 
but speaking as a leftist (i’m more comfortable with socialist tbh), my principles are not abstract things that i hold aside from life, apart or above my place as a human being in a society. my beliefs arise from being a person amidst people. i don’t love art for art’s sake alone, actually! i don’t love objects because they are objects: i love them because they are artifacts of our humanity, because they communicate and connect us, because they embody love and curiosity and fear and feeling. i love art because i love people. i want universal health care because i want to see people universally cared for. i want universal basic income because people’s safety and dignity should not be determined by their economic productivity to an employer. i am anti-war and pro-choice for the same reason: i value people’s lives but also their autonomy and right to self-determination. my beliefs are not abstractions. i could never value a type of economic system that i saw hurting people, no matter how much “growth” it produced. i could never love “law and order” more than i love a child, any child, i saw trapped in a cage.
would i be willing to risk death, trying to save the statue of liberty? probably, yes. but there is no culture without people, and therefore i also believe there are no cultural treasures worth more than other people’s lives. and as far as i’m concerned the same goes for laws, or markets, or borders. 


Well said!

This is an excellent ethical discussion. 

                
            

            
            
lauraantoniou:
lastxleviathan:

robotmango:

tsunderepup:

randomslasher:

pastel-selkie:

lesbianshepard:
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    ethical: Self-Taught Philosopher is more logical and ethical than all you uneducated simps
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: buy ethical chocolate!
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: Ethical(?) Hacking
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: buy ethical chocolate!
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: An ethical debate
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: this my brain when i talk to someone who thinks capitalism is a fair and ethical system
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: Overkill? Maybe. Ethical? Nope. Fun? Yep.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: There’s no way killing Watto is less ethical than forcing a child slave to risk his life
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                ethical: There’s no way killing Watto is less ethical than forcing a child slave to risk his life
                
            

            
            
There’s no way killing Watto is less ethical than forcing a child slave to risk his life

            
            
        

    



        

        
        

            







    ethical: There is no ethical consumption under capitalism
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: Not saying the old active ingredient was ethical, but it worked better than the replacement.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                ethical: Not saying the old active ingredient was ethical, but it worked better than the replacement.
                
            

            
            
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    ethical: puny little fucking brain. increased aerodynamic abilities. jumps to unreasonable ethical conclusions at the speed of light. thinks both sides are valid.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                ethical: puny little fucking brain. increased aerodynamic abilities. jumps to unreasonable ethical conclusions at the speed of light. thinks both sides are valid.
                
            

            
            
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    ethical: Most ethical economic system inaction
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: Mechanicus is a game full of ethical and moral quandaries
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: Classic ethical dilemma
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: Ethical Delima (what would you do)
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: Seems like a fair and ethical amount to mean guys.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: An ethical dilemma
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: Something something ethical consumption
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: In Star Wars (1977), Alderaan was saved by the filmmaker’s decision after thorough reflections on the ethical consequences to the possible annihilation of a celestial body.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: Hmm yes ethical questions of lab created life forms intensify
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: The everyday ethical dilemma of this sub
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: Most scientists are evil FRAUDS and the only ethical researchers work for the oil industry!
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: we have finally achieved ethical consumption under capitalism
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: atlinmerrick:
dancinggrimm:

truckyousasha:

thekaraokeninja:

fandomsandfeminism:

generalmaluga:

albinwonderland:

fandomsandfeminism:

betterthanabortion:

“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.
See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon. 
Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy. 
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died. 
You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies. 

reblogging for commentary 

But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too. 

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation. 
And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.
Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.
If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other. 
When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.” 
And that is gross. 

^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!

This is probably the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.

WHY THE FUCK HAS TUMBLR FLAGGED THIS?! i’M FUCKING FURIOUS!!!

Yep, this was flagged for me too. Which is why I’m going to reblog it several time until Tumblr implodes.

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                ethical: atlinmerrick:
dancinggrimm:

truckyousasha:

thekaraokeninja:

fandomsandfeminism:

generalmaluga:

albinwonderland:

fandomsandfeminism:

betterthanabortion:

“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.
See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon. 
Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy. 
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died. 
You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies. 

reblogging for commentary 

But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too. 

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation. 
And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.
Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.
If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other. 
When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.” 
And that is gross. 

^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!

This is probably the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.

WHY THE FUCK HAS TUMBLR FLAGGED THIS?! i’M FUCKING FURIOUS!!!

Yep, this was flagged for me too. Which is why I’m going to reblog it several time until Tumblr implodes.

                
            

            
            
atlinmerrick:
dancinggrimm:

truckyousasha:

thekaraokeninja:

fandomsandfeminism:

generalmaluga:

albinwonderland:

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    ethical: castielific:
wolfinthethorns:
Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist “create your own Purpose” tempered with “when the plane’s going down, put your own oxygen mask on first”, but… yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.
I’m a guidance counselor/psychologist for teenagers and it’s getting really hard to motivate young people to work for a future they don’t believe in. 
 They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everything  they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them. 
I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadn’t been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just that “well I hope I’ll have a nice house and maybe some kid” but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didn’t dare to hope too much. 
People mock Greta Thunberg but what they don’t get is that when she said “you stole my dreams”, it was the truth. 
Young people don’t get to dream like they used to. They don’t dream anymore, they grief all that won’t be anymore and that’s just so fucking sad. 

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                ethical: castielific:
wolfinthethorns:
Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist “create your own Purpose” tempered with “when the plane’s going down, put your own oxygen mask on first”, but… yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.
I’m a guidance counselor/psychologist for teenagers and it’s getting really hard to motivate young people to work for a future they don’t believe in. 
 They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everything  they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them. 
I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadn’t been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just that “well I hope I’ll have a nice house and maybe some kid” but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didn’t dare to hope too much. 
People mock Greta Thunberg but what they don’t get is that when she said “you stole my dreams”, it was the truth. 
Young people don’t get to dream like they used to. They don’t dream anymore, they grief all that won’t be anymore and that’s just so fucking sad. 

                
            

            
            
castielific:
wolfinthethorns:
Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory appro...

            
            
        

    



        

        
        

            







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    ethical: In spite of my moral and ethical objections, I still laughed like an idiot.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: Is having the strongest of wills ethical?
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: It's just not ethical *proceeds to load a gass shell*
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: Actions deemed to be of low moral and ethical standard, a service offered for a cost that is deemed to be of reasonable value
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: There is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    ethical: spooky mistress misandry
 @hannahtraining
 Ain't that the fucking truth
 Me: "l feel like my life is pointless
 Therapist: "Why?"
 Me: "lmpending fascism and climate
 change mean I probably won't live to
 see 60,'"
 Therapist: "Are you sure thats
 rational?
 Me: *looks at camera like Jim on The
 Office*
 kate wagner@mcmansionhell
 this point in history sure is a really wild time to be
 trying to manage mental illness
 Show this thread
 5:28 PM 14 Oct 18
castielific:

wolfinthethorns:
Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist “create your own Purpose” tempered with “when the plane’s going down, put your own oxygen mask on first”, but… yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.
I’m a guidance counselor/psychologist for teenagers and it’s getting really hard to motivate young people to work for a future they don’t believe in. 
 They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everything  they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them. 
I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadn’t been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just that “well I hope I’ll have a nice house and maybe some kid” but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didn’t dare to hope too much. 
People mock Greta Thunberg but what they don’t get is that when she said “you stole my dreams”, it was the truth. 
Young people don’t get to dream like they used to. They don’t dream anymore, they grief all that won’t be anymore and that’s just so fucking sad. 

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                ethical: spooky mistress misandry
 @hannahtraining
 Ain't that the fucking truth
 Me: "l feel like my life is pointless
 Therapist: "Why?"
 Me: "lmpending fascism and climate
 change mean I probably won't live to
 see 60,'"
 Therapist: "Are you sure thats
 rational?
 Me: *looks at camera like Jim on The
 Office*
 kate wagner@mcmansionhell
 this point in history sure is a really wild time to be
 trying to manage mental illness
 Show this thread
 5:28 PM 14 Oct 18
castielific:

wolfinthethorns:
Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist “create your own Purpose” tempered with “when the plane’s going down, put your own oxygen mask on first”, but… yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.
I’m a guidance counselor/psychologist for teenagers and it’s getting really hard to motivate young people to work for a future they don’t believe in. 
 They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everything  they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them. 
I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadn’t been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just that “well I hope I’ll have a nice house and maybe some kid” but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didn’t dare to hope too much. 
People mock Greta Thunberg but what they don’t get is that when she said “you stole my dreams”, it was the truth. 
Young people don’t get to dream like they used to. They don’t dream anymore, they grief all that won’t be anymore and that’s just so fucking sad. 

                
            

            
            
castielific:

wolfinthethorns:
Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory appr...

            
            
        

    



        

        
        

            







    ethical: Reviews
 Service:
 Home
 Posts
 Videos
 Photos
 Events
 Groups
 I have been trying to connect with how I can sell something when so many
 are needing donations right now.
 It feels like the weight of expectation that women should give a whole lot
 more than she receives.
 I buy into this paradigm often.
 Thinking I should give way more than I receive.
 But I'm coming to learn that the more receive the more I can healthily give
 and this exchange is how we help each other- how we build community
 and how we continue to hold up those in need.
 I'm a very ethical person and I couldn't bring myself to sell something right
 now I didn't feel that people needed.
 But when I sit with this and ask myself how I would be going right now
 without oils to help me work through the emotions, without oils to support
 the physical pain of feeling so much and support the physical sensations
 of sleep deprivation, declining air quality and tension?
 I would hate to be without my oils right now.
 My kids are asking for daily massages.
 I'm gifting oils to anyone I see with a need.
 Gifting oils as a Thankyou and emotional support to those I love.
 And I want to keep this up and feed my family.
 So I bring to you a sales post filled with our 20% off sales this month.
 Because I believe this is a fantastic time to get oils in your hands.
 I believe it's a fantastic time for me to sell oils
 and the recipients of my giving.
 so I can support you, me
 If you feel like you need support of any kind right now please don't feel
 selfish for wanting something for you when you have more than someone
 else.
 There is nothing heroic about being a martyr.
 Let me know if you'd like help deciding which 20% off with Free
 Frankincense starter kit is for you.
 Essential Collection Kit
 doTERAA
 Plus Mood Management
 The package to cover all bases
 SALE PRICE
 WAS $298
 OPTIONAL ADD ON
 PETAL DIFFUSER
 158
 Now $2632O
 FREE
 FRANKINCENSE
My country is on fire but I’m very ethical and couldn’t possibly sell during this awful time but please also buy my shit
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                ethical: Reviews
 Service:
 Home
 Posts
 Videos
 Photos
 Events
 Groups
 I have been trying to connect with how I can sell something when so many
 are needing donations right now.
 It feels like the weight of expectation that women should give a whole lot
 more than she receives.
 I buy into this paradigm often.
 Thinking I should give way more than I receive.
 But I'm coming to learn that the more receive the more I can healthily give
 and this exchange is how we help each other- how we build community
 and how we continue to hold up those in need.
 I'm a very ethical person and I couldn't bring myself to sell something right
 now I didn't feel that people needed.
 But when I sit with this and ask myself how I would be going right now
 without oils to help me work through the emotions, without oils to support
 the physical pain of feeling so much and support the physical sensations
 of sleep deprivation, declining air quality and tension?
 I would hate to be without my oils right now.
 My kids are asking for daily massages.
 I'm gifting oils to anyone I see with a need.
 Gifting oils as a Thankyou and emotional support to those I love.
 And I want to keep this up and feed my family.
 So I bring to you a sales post filled with our 20% off sales this month.
 Because I believe this is a fantastic time to get oils in your hands.
 I believe it's a fantastic time for me to sell oils
 and the recipients of my giving.
 so I can support you, me
 If you feel like you need support of any kind right now please don't feel
 selfish for wanting something for you when you have more than someone
 else.
 There is nothing heroic about being a martyr.
 Let me know if you'd like help deciding which 20% off with Free
 Frankincense starter kit is for you.
 Essential Collection Kit
 doTERAA
 Plus Mood Management
 The package to cover all bases
 SALE PRICE
 WAS $298
 OPTIONAL ADD ON
 PETAL DIFFUSER
 158
 Now $2632O
 FREE
 FRANKINCENSE
My country is on fire but I’m very ethical and couldn’t possibly sell during this awful time but please also buy my shit
                
            

            
            
My country is on fire but I’m very ethical and couldn’t possibly sell during this awful time but please also buy my shit

            
            
        

    



        

        
        

            






        

        
        

            






        

        
        

            







    ethical: www.EXPRESSIVEEGG.ORG PRESENTS
 (THE TRUISH AND ACTUAL
 POLITICAL SPECTRUM
 OSCAR WILDE
 WILLIAM MORRIS
 BARACK OBAMA
 STALIN
 GEORGE ORWELL
 MY GRANDAD
 KRISHNAMURTI
 MARX
 JEREMY CORBYN
 FD ROOSEVELT
 STEVEN PINKER
 TONY BLAIR
 DONALD TRUMP
 HITLER
 IVAN ILLICH
 TOLSTOY
 ALDOUS HUXLEY
 NOAM CHOMSKY
 example
 proponents
 HENRY MILLER
 WILHELM REICH
 JOHN PILGER CHARLIE CHAPLIN MARK FISHER KEN LOACH
 MICHEL FOUCAULT SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK ADAM CURTIS ALAIN DE BOTTON NICK COHEN
 THE MAIL
 HENRY DAVIO THOREAU
 (see notes)
 ME
 BEZ
 FRANKJE BOYLE
 NATIONAL
 FRONT
 BARRY LONG
 GEORGE WOODCOCK
 NOE ITO MARK CURTIS
 MEDIALENS
 MARTIN LUTHER KING
 BERNIE SANDERS MICHAEL MOORE
 JORDAN PETERSON
 PLATO
 LAO TZU
 HUGO CHAVEZ
 RONALD REAGAN AYN RAND
 JOHN ZERZAN
 DH LAWRENCE
 MY MUM
 YOUNG RAN PRIEUR
 LEWIS MUMFORD
 AMY GOODMAN
 GEORGE GALLOWAY JOHN RUSKIN
 CLEMENT ATTLEE GEORGE MONBIOT
 HOLLYWOD HEGE ROBERT MCNAMARA
 ILL HICKS
 OLD RAN PRIEUR
 R
 PHILIP K DICK
 OB BLACK PETER KROPOTKIN JOHN LENNON RICHARD WOLFF DAVID CRAEBER CHARLES DICKENS MOST OF THE WORLD MORRISSEY JUNG ST.PAUL
 LAURIE PENNY
 CHURCHILL LENIN
 THE BBC THATCHER HENRY KISSINGER
 actual meaning
 official meaning -
 THE LEFT
 THE CENTRE
 'the far left' / 'the loony left"
 THE FANATICAL RIGHT
 THE EXTREME LEFT
 THE FAR LEFT
 THE RIGHT
 THE FAR RIGHT
 *the left"
 'insanity
 'terrorism' / 'extremism
 *the right"
 politics
 DEMOCRACTIC 'ANARCHISM
 (MARKET) 'DEMOCRACY / 'INDIVIDUALISM
 OMNARCHISM /
 STANDARD ANARCHISM
 (SOCIAL) DEMOCRACY
 LIBERTARIANISH
 MARXISM / OFFICIAL SOCIALISM
 LIBERTARIAN / DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
 LIBERALISM (UK)
 FASCISM
 RADICAL ANARCHISM
 "REFUSUAL OF WORK" MOVEMENT
 INDIMDUALISM (POLITICAL)
 ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM
 UNOFFICIAL SOCIALISM
 SUPPORT FOR TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM
 TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP
 INDMDUALISM (WILDIAN)
 POST-LEFTISM
 SITUATIONISM
 "ENLIGHTENED' MONARCHISM
 AUTHORITARIAN MONARCHISM
 "CAPITALISM (AKA PRIVATE CAPITALISM)
 ANARCHO-PRIMITIVISM
 "COMMUNISM' (AKA STATE CAPITALISM)
 PROFESSIONALISM
 CORPORATE SOCIALISM ('STAGVERSION')
 AUTHORITARIAN SOCIALISM
 LIBERALISM (US) / WAGE-SLAVERY
 FEUDALISM / TRADITIONAL SLAVERY
 THE OVERTON WINDOW (OFFICIALLY ACCEPTABLE / 'MAINSTREAM')
 Rule by democratic totalitarian systems,
 excess of choice, limitation of access to
 speech platforms, assimilation of minorities,
 belief in emotional-morality, 'imagination' and
 flexibility, and control by desire, debt and
 implicit threat of violence. No overt control of
 dissent (system selects for system-friendly
 voices). Huxleyan Dystopia. Most of the
 modern world (USA, Europe, Japan, etc.)
 Rule by unspoken context or by
 temporary and powerless leaders.
 No institutions (no need for them).
 lawless (soft guideline bounded),
 moneyless (gift-economy) and
 timeless. Used by most societies
 (and most friendships) for most of
 human history. Never been tried in a
 No state, extreme limitation of power.
 Citizen's income, local currencies,
 jubilees, etc. Extreme limits on energY
 consumption, complexity of institutions,
 power of technology. Untried.
 (N.b. Some strands of anarchism (e.g.
 Stirnan) are fanatical, extremely violent
 and cultdike). These are much publicised
 by 'the mainstream
 Rule by workers' councils, direct
 democracy, etc. Technophilic.
 Scattered examples in history (eg.
 Spanish civil war, pre-Bolshevik soviet
 Russia / Makhnovist Ukraine, etc).
 Rule by intellectuals and professionals oversee-
 ing democratic welfare state. Heavy restrictions
 on wealth-acquisition, privatisation, etc. Heavily
 unionised workplaces, heavily subsidised public
 services. Small or non-existant military. Very rare,
 but 1950s -1970s Britain, Scandinavia and Cuba
 exhibited many features.
 Rule by autocratic totalitarian people/
 elites, limitation of choice, repression of
 speech and repression of minorities, belief
 in order, routine and rationalmorality and
 control by enclosure, fear and explicit
 violence. Violent repression of dissent (via
 "the party line). Orwellian Dystopia. Most
 of the pre-modern world + USSR, Nazi
 Germany, Saudi Arabia, etc ('the bad guys')
 government
 examples
 modern or agriIcultural society post
 B,000 BC.
 > SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND AUTHORITARIANISM
 SOCIAL EQUALITY AND INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
 (theology)
 PANTHEISM
 "SPIRITUALISM'
 MYSTIC THEISM
 THEISM
 ATHEISM
 AGNOTICISM
 EXPLANATORY NOTES
 Marx isn't to the right of Chomsky! FDR isn't to the left of Stalin!
 And so on and so forth. First of all the above graph represents the
 political spectrum as it actually is, in real life, rather than as it is
 presented in the mainstream media (MSM).
 In real life, for example, the USSR practiced state capitalism (a
 system where the state controlled surplus) which is only different
 to the private capitalism of the west (where private owners
 control surplus) in the most superficial details. Life for ordinary
 people under 'capitalism, 'communism' and 'fascism' is identical,
 because they all share the same basic attitude to money, law,
 growth, science, work and so on: hence Stalin, Blair, Hitler, Obama
 and co are all on the far right.
 The Overton Window is Nonsensel
 Another reason why this graph seems doubtful is, of course,
 because real people, in the real world, often have complex and
 contradictory views about a range of subjects. Most of the views of
 DH Lawrence, for example, were about as far left as you can possi-
 bly get; he rejected civilisation in toto. Yet he also suggested the
 working class should all be rounded up into Crystal Palace and
 gassed! My grandad used to read The Sun, voted conservative,
 praised Thatcher and regularly warned me about the blacks and
 gays up in London; yet in his actual behaviour he vigoriously reject-
 ed authoritarianism and inequality and believed that ordinary
 people did not need professionals to direct their activities.
 The Overton Window represents the limits of acceptable thought
 in mainstream media and politics. The left side is the position of the
 middle or professional class, the (new) Labour Party or Democrat
 Party, the Guardian, the BBC, the Washington Post and so on.
 These groups are firmly to the far right of the actual political
 spectrum, although it is difficult to perceive this as they also com-
 prise journalists and academics who are slightly to the left of them;
 Steven Pinker, Owen Jones, Christopher Hitchens and other corp
 employees (stagversives) are used to give an impression of balance
 and adversarialism, and to attract members of the 'anti-corp' or
 "socialist' demographic into their ads for carbon-neutral package
 holidays and ethical mousemats. To venture beyond the corp-es-
 tablishment friendly feminism' of Laurie Penny or the 'originality' of
 reactionary writers like Jared Diamond or Malcolm Gladwell-to
 suggest that wealth should be radically redistributed, that we
 should head towards a classless society or that the MSN is organ-
 ised to reward only establishment-friendly voices-is to go beyond
 the pale, into the land of woo' or, more ominously, 'extremism'
 This is why the Overton Window is ignored or dismissed in the
 MSM, which must maintain the illusion of 'impartiality, variety.
 'balance' and even 'anti-establishment bias: It's also why maniacs
 like Nick Cohen and Oliver Kamm describe themselves as 'left-wing."
 So if the MSM left and right are fictions, what is left and right?
 On the left is individual freedom and equality, which is based on a
 basic basic trust in humanity, or in reality. On the right is authori-
 tarianism and social stratification, which is based on basic cynicism.
 The scale, therefore, is to some degree* one of sanity. The further
 right you go, the more you view the universe as a vast pyramid of
 power which people must do whatever is necessary to climb. For
 this reason I have listed 'theology, which bears upon one's funda-
 mental political outlook, the right being typically a place where
 aggressive atheism, abrahamic theism, sham 'yoga-and-mindful-
 ness' spirituality thrive, the left being a place of heretical (non-duat
 ist) theism, pantheism and the like, and the centre, typically,
 informed by reasonable agnostics and open-minded atheists.
 Likewise in no sense is Bill Hicks a Tolstoyan or Slavoj Žižek a Jungi-
 an or Thatcher a Hegelian.
 So the above scale is faithful to the range of political opinions
 outside the reverse telescope of the mainstream media, but it also
 represents a kind of schematic aggregate or rough approximation
 of the political position of major characters in Western political
 history (most of whom, yes, were white and male).
 Of course Hitler and Stalin, like a few ultra-ultra-ultra right wingers
 today, are officially just outside the acceptable spectrum (it's just
 not the done thing nowadays to explicitly persecute racial minori-
 ties). But their fundamental approach to society and to reality
 remains the same as Pinochet's, Thatcher's, Clinton's, Churchill's
 and so on: which is why in all their societies the poor end up
 getting shafted and nature ends up getting decimated.
 by Darren Allen
 llustrations by AI
 *ie. bearing in mind the approximations mentioned above -it's ludicrous to decisively rate
 anyone's sanity- hence 'truish-let alone cal Hicks saner than Orwell or Wilde saner than Morris.
Honestly not sure what to title this serpentine "political spectrum"
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                ethical: www.EXPRESSIVEEGG.ORG PRESENTS
 (THE TRUISH AND ACTUAL
 POLITICAL SPECTRUM
 OSCAR WILDE
 WILLIAM MORRIS
 BARACK OBAMA
 STALIN
 GEORGE ORWELL
 MY GRANDAD
 KRISHNAMURTI
 MARX
 JEREMY CORBYN
 FD ROOSEVELT
 STEVEN PINKER
 TONY BLAIR
 DONALD TRUMP
 HITLER
 IVAN ILLICH
 TOLSTOY
 ALDOUS HUXLEY
 NOAM CHOMSKY
 example
 proponents
 HENRY MILLER
 WILHELM REICH
 JOHN PILGER CHARLIE CHAPLIN MARK FISHER KEN LOACH
 MICHEL FOUCAULT SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK ADAM CURTIS ALAIN DE BOTTON NICK COHEN
 THE MAIL
 HENRY DAVIO THOREAU
 (see notes)
 ME
 BEZ
 FRANKJE BOYLE
 NATIONAL
 FRONT
 BARRY LONG
 GEORGE WOODCOCK
 NOE ITO MARK CURTIS
 MEDIALENS
 MARTIN LUTHER KING
 BERNIE SANDERS MICHAEL MOORE
 JORDAN PETERSON
 PLATO
 LAO TZU
 HUGO CHAVEZ
 RONALD REAGAN AYN RAND
 JOHN ZERZAN
 DH LAWRENCE
 MY MUM
 YOUNG RAN PRIEUR
 LEWIS MUMFORD
 AMY GOODMAN
 GEORGE GALLOWAY JOHN RUSKIN
 CLEMENT ATTLEE GEORGE MONBIOT
 HOLLYWOD HEGE ROBERT MCNAMARA
 ILL HICKS
 OLD RAN PRIEUR
 R
 PHILIP K DICK
 OB BLACK PETER KROPOTKIN JOHN LENNON RICHARD WOLFF DAVID CRAEBER CHARLES DICKENS MOST OF THE WORLD MORRISSEY JUNG ST.PAUL
 LAURIE PENNY
 CHURCHILL LENIN
 THE BBC THATCHER HENRY KISSINGER
 actual meaning
 official meaning -
 THE LEFT
 THE CENTRE
 'the far left' / 'the loony left"
 THE FANATICAL RIGHT
 THE EXTREME LEFT
 THE FAR LEFT
 THE RIGHT
 THE FAR RIGHT
 *the left"
 'insanity
 'terrorism' / 'extremism
 *the right"
 politics
 DEMOCRACTIC 'ANARCHISM
 (MARKET) 'DEMOCRACY / 'INDIVIDUALISM
 OMNARCHISM /
 STANDARD ANARCHISM
 (SOCIAL) DEMOCRACY
 LIBERTARIANISH
 MARXISM / OFFICIAL SOCIALISM
 LIBERTARIAN / DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
 LIBERALISM (UK)
 FASCISM
 RADICAL ANARCHISM
 "REFUSUAL OF WORK" MOVEMENT
 INDIMDUALISM (POLITICAL)
 ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM
 UNOFFICIAL SOCIALISM
 SUPPORT FOR TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM
 TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP
 INDMDUALISM (WILDIAN)
 POST-LEFTISM
 SITUATIONISM
 "ENLIGHTENED' MONARCHISM
 AUTHORITARIAN MONARCHISM
 "CAPITALISM (AKA PRIVATE CAPITALISM)
 ANARCHO-PRIMITIVISM
 "COMMUNISM' (AKA STATE CAPITALISM)
 PROFESSIONALISM
 CORPORATE SOCIALISM ('STAGVERSION')
 AUTHORITARIAN SOCIALISM
 LIBERALISM (US) / WAGE-SLAVERY
 FEUDALISM / TRADITIONAL SLAVERY
 THE OVERTON WINDOW (OFFICIALLY ACCEPTABLE / 'MAINSTREAM')
 Rule by democratic totalitarian systems,
 excess of choice, limitation of access to
 speech platforms, assimilation of minorities,
 belief in emotional-morality, 'imagination' and
 flexibility, and control by desire, debt and
 implicit threat of violence. No overt control of
 dissent (system selects for system-friendly
 voices). Huxleyan Dystopia. Most of the
 modern world (USA, Europe, Japan, etc.)
 Rule by unspoken context or by
 temporary and powerless leaders.
 No institutions (no need for them).
 lawless (soft guideline bounded),
 moneyless (gift-economy) and
 timeless. Used by most societies
 (and most friendships) for most of
 human history. Never been tried in a
 No state, extreme limitation of power.
 Citizen's income, local currencies,
 jubilees, etc. Extreme limits on energY
 consumption, complexity of institutions,
 power of technology. Untried.
 (N.b. Some strands of anarchism (e.g.
 Stirnan) are fanatical, extremely violent
 and cultdike). These are much publicised
 by 'the mainstream
 Rule by workers' councils, direct
 democracy, etc. Technophilic.
 Scattered examples in history (eg.
 Spanish civil war, pre-Bolshevik soviet
 Russia / Makhnovist Ukraine, etc).
 Rule by intellectuals and professionals oversee-
 ing democratic welfare state. Heavy restrictions
 on wealth-acquisition, privatisation, etc. Heavily
 unionised workplaces, heavily subsidised public
 services. Small or non-existant military. Very rare,
 but 1950s -1970s Britain, Scandinavia and Cuba
 exhibited many features.
 Rule by autocratic totalitarian people/
 elites, limitation of choice, repression of
 speech and repression of minorities, belief
 in order, routine and rationalmorality and
 control by enclosure, fear and explicit
 violence. Violent repression of dissent (via
 "the party line). Orwellian Dystopia. Most
 of the pre-modern world + USSR, Nazi
 Germany, Saudi Arabia, etc ('the bad guys')
 government
 examples
 modern or agriIcultural society post
 B,000 BC.
 > SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND AUTHORITARIANISM
 SOCIAL EQUALITY AND INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
 (theology)
 PANTHEISM
 "SPIRITUALISM'
 MYSTIC THEISM
 THEISM
 ATHEISM
 AGNOTICISM
 EXPLANATORY NOTES
 Marx isn't to the right of Chomsky! FDR isn't to the left of Stalin!
 And so on and so forth. First of all the above graph represents the
 political spectrum as it actually is, in real life, rather than as it is
 presented in the mainstream media (MSM).
 In real life, for example, the USSR practiced state capitalism (a
 system where the state controlled surplus) which is only different
 to the private capitalism of the west (where private owners
 control surplus) in the most superficial details. Life for ordinary
 people under 'capitalism, 'communism' and 'fascism' is identical,
 because they all share the same basic attitude to money, law,
 growth, science, work and so on: hence Stalin, Blair, Hitler, Obama
 and co are all on the far right.
 The Overton Window is Nonsensel
 Another reason why this graph seems doubtful is, of course,
 because real people, in the real world, often have complex and
 contradictory views about a range of subjects. Most of the views of
 DH Lawrence, for example, were about as far left as you can possi-
 bly get; he rejected civilisation in toto. Yet he also suggested the
 working class should all be rounded up into Crystal Palace and
 gassed! My grandad used to read The Sun, voted conservative,
 praised Thatcher and regularly warned me about the blacks and
 gays up in London; yet in his actual behaviour he vigoriously reject-
 ed authoritarianism and inequality and believed that ordinary
 people did not need professionals to direct their activities.
 The Overton Window represents the limits of acceptable thought
 in mainstream media and politics. The left side is the position of the
 middle or professional class, the (new) Labour Party or Democrat
 Party, the Guardian, the BBC, the Washington Post and so on.
 These groups are firmly to the far right of the actual political
 spectrum, although it is difficult to perceive this as they also com-
 prise journalists and academics who are slightly to the left of them;
 Steven Pinker, Owen Jones, Christopher Hitchens and other corp
 employees (stagversives) are used to give an impression of balance
 and adversarialism, and to attract members of the 'anti-corp' or
 "socialist' demographic into their ads for carbon-neutral package
 holidays and ethical mousemats. To venture beyond the corp-es-
 tablishment friendly feminism' of Laurie Penny or the 'originality' of
 reactionary writers like Jared Diamond or Malcolm Gladwell-to
 suggest that wealth should be radically redistributed, that we
 should head towards a classless society or that the MSN is organ-
 ised to reward only establishment-friendly voices-is to go beyond
 the pale, into the land of woo' or, more ominously, 'extremism'
 This is why the Overton Window is ignored or dismissed in the
 MSM, which must maintain the illusion of 'impartiality, variety.
 'balance' and even 'anti-establishment bias: It's also why maniacs
 like Nick Cohen and Oliver Kamm describe themselves as 'left-wing."
 So if the MSM left and right are fictions, what is left and right?
 On the left is individual freedom and equality, which is based on a
 basic basic trust in humanity, or in reality. On the right is authori-
 tarianism and social stratification, which is based on basic cynicism.
 The scale, therefore, is to some degree* one of sanity. The further
 right you go, the more you view the universe as a vast pyramid of
 power which people must do whatever is necessary to climb. For
 this reason I have listed 'theology, which bears upon one's funda-
 mental political outlook, the right being typically a place where
 aggressive atheism, abrahamic theism, sham 'yoga-and-mindful-
 ness' spirituality thrive, the left being a place of heretical (non-duat
 ist) theism, pantheism and the like, and the centre, typically,
 informed by reasonable agnostics and open-minded atheists.
 Likewise in no sense is Bill Hicks a Tolstoyan or Slavoj Žižek a Jungi-
 an or Thatcher a Hegelian.
 So the above scale is faithful to the range of political opinions
 outside the reverse telescope of the mainstream media, but it also
 represents a kind of schematic aggregate or rough approximation
 of the political position of major characters in Western political
 history (most of whom, yes, were white and male).
 Of course Hitler and Stalin, like a few ultra-ultra-ultra right wingers
 today, are officially just outside the acceptable spectrum (it's just
 not the done thing nowadays to explicitly persecute racial minori-
 ties). But their fundamental approach to society and to reality
 remains the same as Pinochet's, Thatcher's, Clinton's, Churchill's
 and so on: which is why in all their societies the poor end up
 getting shafted and nature ends up getting decimated.
 by Darren Allen
 llustrations by AI
 *ie. bearing in mind the approximations mentioned above -it's ludicrous to decisively rate
 anyone's sanity- hence 'truish-let alone cal Hicks saner than Orwell or Wilde saner than Morris.
Honestly not sure what to title this serpentine "political spectrum"
                
            

            
            
Honestly not sure what to title this serpentine "political spectrum"