When I was 15 (6 years ago) and in high school, we got a new class and teacher...sociology. I ended up taking the class alongside world history, finance, psychology. When I took the class, we were taught some actually relevant information about how to analyze societies, specifically two perspectives stuck out to me: functionalism (describing a society based on the different parts of its hierarchy and cultures) and conflict theory (the way by which conflicts and divisions affect things.)This class is and always was communism in disguise. My teacher was an ex-infantry soldier who hated the military for it's "invasions in the middle east" and he used the class to do two things 1) teach us to be respectful of all groups and cultures (almost peak subjectivism) and 2) to find kids he thought would accept his brand of transhuman anarcho-communism. Because of serious mental problems along with my passion for academics, I ended up spending a lot of time in the class and studies and built a personal relationship with the teacher. The result? I stopped thinking critically about specific things he presented me and accepted them as truths because I trusted him. Along with this was critical race theory, and eventually, I ended up adopting both Marx's communist manifesto and Bakinin's statism and anarchy without ever actually critically analyzing what I was reading. Most of my troubled life at that time was because of my parents, who were abusive and hypocritical to a high degree. Because of this, I accepted mad suppositions such as the innate evilness of all governments, and the innate goodness of people when they were all treated as equal. After several fallouts in my life, I joined ANTIFA online and began trying to recruit people. Eventually I was forced to move away and lost contact with all of my previous ideological allies, and when I returned I did the worst thing a communist can do:I started working at a factory. First thing I realized: the workers are not capable of effectively running the means of production. I worked in quality service. Even with hour by hour paperwork and cameras and constant watch staff people still abused the rules in ways that made our products (food stuffs) EXTREMELY dangerous, we had to throw away 10-20,000$ (weeks worth of food) if a single mistake was made and yet these people who had worked for 10+ years and the proper training still would cost us money. I realized that corporatations are hedgemonic and overbloated, and that mismanagement is also a problem, along with companies being abusive or outright exploitative (so not full laissez faire) and I realized everything I believed was now under question. By this time, I had been a communist for 2 years and an anarchist (informally) for 7. I was also on the process to transition from male to female.I reexamined (materialistically and dialectically) every belief I had under serious scrutiny with a brand new idea: Nothing is sacred. Leave no stone unturned. Anything that can't be substantiated, no matter how important, no matter how much it bothers you, MUST be cast away. And then I had a daughter.So why the post? Other than being asked to do it once or twice here I've decided that most people don't really get why the left operates the way it does. So here's a SERIOUSLY OVERGENERALIZED VIEW BASED SOLELY IN MY ALLEGORY that I have observed;1) a lot of people on the left have had serious turbulent relationships with their parents. Unfortunately their (Gen Z) parents are millennials, and tend to be very neglectful and live and let live. For a lot of them that means dealing with serious shit that kids need their parents for alone, which makes them resent their parents and then, eventually, authorities.2) Sociology classes, gender classes in high school and middle school, along with extremely black and white history exacerbate a lot of the anti-aurhority beliefs in a dogmatic (not a skeptical) way. A quick example is WWI. I was taught that Germany was unfairly blamed for WWI and that it was really nobody's fault (or equally everyone's fault for going to war.) This is CLEARLY not the case (do some research as to what Germany and Russia did to even start the war). There are a lot of cases (like the Civil war, the revolutionary war, etc)3) Social media gives kids the ability to take their anti-authoritarianism, angst, and limited knowledge of the world through their school teachers biased lens and allows them to transfigure the truth in a metaphysical space. You know how postmodernists say that if there was a map of the earth so realistic, so detailed and so large that it was exactly the same as reality and then you changed it to reflect what you wanted, that makes those changes real? That's kind of gobbledy gook but long story short: without any life experience or critical analysis skills they're give a space to formulate ideas and build off of them. Instead of this being dialectic or argumentative (coming from internal theorizing and then sharing with others who can confirm or deny biases and technically have the probability of curbing their biases) INSTEAD they curate a space of only those they know who agree with them. Without knowing why it's bad or what it is, they formulate an echo chamber for theory space and reject conflict.4) Because of the echo chambers and the way information spreads, fear, anxiety, etc is extremely common. They're easily preyed on by the media and politicians and figures they support because they are already scared. They genuinely think that people are conspiring against them and want them dead just because they don't agree with them.Anyways, this is a massive nonsensical ramble but you can ask questions if something doesn't make sense. I don't expect many people to see this and I'll respond sporadically so don't be surprised if I pop in like several hours later via /r/walkaway https://ift.tt/2Seo3Ne
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