I would like to note at the outset that in this essay I will use the terms “left” and “right”, but I am increasingly sceptical of the utility of the left-right typology.
Important to note, in keeping with what you said at the end, that universalism and equality are inherently linked. This is something denied by universalists on the right. But if we all fall substantially under the same moral rubric, this is simply saying that there's some substantial way in which we're all the same.
Binary splitting is a simple strategy used by slave masters to keep slaves fighting each other. In the digitally connected world information and kinetic affiliations are shifting with such rapidity the master class is being overrun by a billion points of view. The control freaks have been reduced to raping and killing the most vulnerable among us, our children. They will not get away with it forever.
Important to note, in keeping with what you said at the end, that universalism and equality are inherently linked. This is something denied by universalists on the right. But if we all fall substantially under the same moral rubric, this is simply saying that there's some substantial way in which we're all the same.
Binary splitting is a simple strategy used by slave masters to keep slaves fighting each other. In the digitally connected world information and kinetic affiliations are shifting with such rapidity the master class is being overrun by a billion points of view. The control freaks have been reduced to raping and killing the most vulnerable among us, our children. They will not get away with it forever.