Monday, June 26, 2023

There Is No Right-Wing Hive Mind, But There Are Dozens And Dozens And Dozens Of Echo Chambers

Let me state once more that I believe strongly in the non-existence of a right wing. I believe in a Leftist Hive Mind but I hesitate to use the geometric term "Left" because that implies a spectrum concluding with a "Right Wing". 

The forces who oppose The Hive are so vastly different from The Hive that they should not be considered the same species. The chicken is not a right-wing equivalent of an ant colony. Nor is the weasel, the lamb, the slug, the leech, the snake, the turkey, the pig, the badger or the buffoon. All creatures great and small might fear The Hive but the similarities end right there.

We do not envy the Hiver whose only point of reference is her flattering house of mirrors. As free thinkers we can explore nature's many, many echo chambers. Some of us devote our time if not our lives to such pursuits. 

Unlike the phobic, brain-dead Hivers, we can entertain ideas without submitting to them. There is no danger in what we hear, but there is danger in what we don't hear. That which we no longer hear. The contradiction, the falsity, the duplicity, the deception. The bull shit.

As with things like transparency, capitalism, and republicanism, eclecticism's flaws are better resolved by more eclecticism, not less. Truth is not threatened by eclecticism, it is refined by it. Truth is brought into focus by varied perspectives.

There is no far-right, alt-right, or right wing. There are only echo chambers.