I feel like if your politics are the primary part of your identity you might be putting the cart before the horse a little. The way someone views the world and the actions they take as a result are clearly a very important part of their person, but IMO those things should exist on top of a more innate self that isn’t determined by macro-scale social phenomena. Not having any other foundation except your political identity might be a problem when the left fails again and again, due to factors outside any individual within the left’s control. It also might hinder your ability to organize effectively because doing nothing besides party work probably will cause you to slowly lose your mind.
I do see a problem where, given the state of the world, for tons of people there is no horse to put before the cart anyway, and their political worldview might be the only thing that gives their life meaning.
I think this occurs for every revolutionary that makes the internal decision that they’re willing to die for it and I actually don’t think it should be discouraged if it’s what it takes to win.
I do see a problem where, given the state of the world, for tons of people there is no horse to put before the cart anyway, and their political worldview might be the only thing that gives their life meaning.
I feel like if your politics are the primary part of your identity you might be putting the cart before the horse a little. The way someone views the world and the actions they take as a result are clearly a very important part of their person, but IMO those things should exist on top of a more innate self that isn’t determined by macro-scale social phenomena. Not having any other foundation except your political identity might be a problem when the left fails again and again, due to factors outside any individual within the left’s control. It also might hinder your ability to organize effectively because doing nothing besides party work probably will cause you to slowly lose your mind.
I do see a problem where, given the state of the world, for tons of people there is no horse to put before the cart anyway, and their political worldview might be the only thing that gives their life meaning.
I think this occurs for every revolutionary that makes the internal decision that they’re willing to die for it and I actually don’t think it should be discouraged if it’s what it takes to win.
how did you put a mirror in your comment?
You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.