I’ve noticed a depressive tendency on the left, but I think it might be an accidental bad strategy.
Please take this as my observations which may be shaped by what I choose to read.
It seems to me that left wingers have a habit of having every bad thing in the world remind them of every other bad thing. This may be a lack of respect for specialization, or it may be a side effect of competition for mind space, where everyone is trying to recruit everyone else for their preferred cause.
I also think that efforts to puncture grandiosity have overshot to the point of causing despair. That one’s race or country or species aren’t reliably wonderful (no doubt true) isn’t the same thing as them being the worst thing ever.
Another aspect is that right-wingers get angry. Left-wingers get angry too, but their goals are so large and absolute that they also get sad.
Also, I think left-wingers didn’t used to have the inclination towards depression, or at least the earlier pro-labor, pro-civil rights bunch don’t strike me as being especially unhappy.
I’ve noticed a depressive tendency on the left, but I think it might be an accidental bad strategy.
Please take this as my observations which may be shaped by what I choose to read.
It seems to me that left wingers have a habit of having every bad thing in the world remind them of every other bad thing. This may be a lack of respect for specialization, or it may be a side effect of competition for mind space, where everyone is trying to recruit everyone else for their preferred cause.
I also think that efforts to puncture grandiosity have overshot to the point of causing despair. That one’s race or country or species aren’t reliably wonderful (no doubt true) isn’t the same thing as them being the worst thing ever.
Another aspect is that right-wingers get angry. Left-wingers get angry too, but their goals are so large and absolute that they also get sad.
Also, I think left-wingers didn’t used to have the inclination towards depression, or at least the earlier pro-labor, pro-civil rights bunch don’t strike me as being especially unhappy.