A New Ideology | Ian Welsh

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People think that their individual decisions matter, but so much of what happens is social.  A man goes to war, or not, and that has little to do with him personally.  A college student has a huge debt and that is because she is a Millenial, not a Baby Boomer.  A generation has fantastic success, but that is because they are the GI Generation in America, it is not individual, even if it feels like it.  Born 30 years earlier the exact same people would have stagnated on farms.  A generation raised in affluence undoes all the protections put on the economy by those who experienced the Great Depression, because they know better, really, and they never experienced the Great Depression or the Roaring 20s.

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 when you can walk out because you don’t need this job and it isn’t clear you can be replaced, bosses suddenly start treating you very very well indeed.

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ultimately the difference between the right and the left is this; the right thinks you get more out of people by treating them badly, the left thinks you get more out of people by treating them well. 

An ideology that believes treating people well is the better way to do things is a lot better to live under.

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A powerful ideology is a scary thing. If your ideology isn’t strong enough, doesn’t create enough fervent belief that people will die for it, then it won’t change the world.  But if it does create that level of fervent belief, then it will be misused, so the question is simply: will this do more harm than good?

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When faced, then, with a monstrous ideology, our duty is to come up with a better one, an opposing one.  Because ideology determines what we do.  It is both the lens we see the world through, and the motor that pushes us forward.

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