>>507130880Yeah, you're mostly right I think. As I said it's an observation that I made.
However, what I'm doing is not so much trying to find a distinguishing trait of the left (as opposed to the right) as instead trying to understand those people who we already recognize as undeniably leftist, especially from the perspective of /pol/tards here, since it can shed light on things we maybe could not recognize as strikingly in moderately leftist people. I mean it's not as if a movement ethos were just the mean of all the members equally, some people sway more than others.
Again, the first half of my beginning sentence was:
>If we take a step back and consider the left not as just a political camp but also as a manifestation of an underlying tendencyIt was my fault not emphasizing enough for people who would not give me the benefit of the doubt right away but I was giving a short rant about that "underlying tendency", from which leftist philosophy, politcs, etc could only be downstream from.
Most likely, it's not the only thing having had influenced leftism (if it even has, to begin with anyways, since it's just my little hobby conjecture), but when I apply this idea on the various aspects of leftism I find it explains too much for me to not be confident about about this little theory, and the pattern that seems to arise appears too pervase to boot.
If I tried to explain the equivalent right wing tendency I don't think it would simply be the other end of the spectrum anyways, it might as well even be orthogonal to rightism.
But another valid criticism you could have is that relying a lot on intuition and I'm trying to conceptualize/verbalize it after the fact, but it's irrelevant since a tool/model's validity is not based on where the idea for it came from anyways, and I aim to be intellectually honest in arguing for it to see where it is lacking.