On 31 March 2015 at 23:31, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Liz, > > You may be right. I am surely not going to debate that there are a lot of > people who were lucky enough to have been born in optimal conditions and > feel superior to people who were just less lucky. For this reason, they > will support ideas that are just self-serving rationalizations. > > The problem with left/right polarization, in my opinion, is that it kills > critical thought. > > It is possible to agree with everything you said, but also believe that > the strategies traditionally proposed by the left do not work. There are > many interesting ideas that are not taken seriously because they fall > outside of this dichotomy, for example: > > - Guaranteed flat income for everyone, no exceptions, no special rules; > - A return to a resource-based currency and the end of central banks, thus > preventing they highly leveraged investments that generate economical > crises and only widen the gap between the rich and the poor; > - Deregulation of medicine, recongnizing that there is a trade-off between > the protections provided by regulation and the pricing-out of people out of > medical care due to barriers to competition introduced by said regulation; > - Confronting the lobbies that prevent modern technology from being used > to create dirt-cheap, comfortable housing. > I agree with you. I'm very sympathetic to anarchist views, which some of the above-mentioned are (more than left wing). I was only arguing for simple empathy for others, which right wingers seem to have deliberately cut themselves off from - to their own detriment as well as others'. I wasn't particularly actually *being* a leftie, but I often get called one for espousing such ideas. But of course real lefties see me as to their right. (I have a similar problem with feminists...) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
