The only reason there are so few of us doing the research – the hard work – of discovering truth in the behavioral sciences across the spectrum, and solutions using that truth, is because no one actually wants a means of cooperation … then want a means of success by defeat.
And those of us who discover and purvey the truth are doomed to be cursed by both sides as enemies, fools or traitors.
I’m pretty exhausted – especially given my libertarian moral instincts – by the fact that the left considers me evil, the libertarians a defector, and the right a seditionist that’s trying to make peace with the enemy.
Now, one can sit in one’s ivory tower and suffer the slings and arrows while camping amidst one’s fellows. But when we attempt to engage in activism or god forbid business, we leave that ivory tower and the company of our fellows, and venture into the daily warfare that constitutes the century and a half of collapse of our civilization under the influence of the feminine, the left, the christian, and the foolishly optimistic right, and naive libertarian. All of whom were made possible by the by the government they inherited from the aristocracy, and the economy inherited from the upper middle and middle classes, such that the folly of the lower classes, the effeminate males, and women could be expressed in economy and polity.
The high trust of the federation of the aristocratic west, its truth before face as honorable, combined with folly of utopian christian optimism, combined with the evolution of distributed restoration of european trade, gave us profound advantage – but the hole in it is tolerance for that which would undermine any aspect of it.
And the combination of the left and women voters did what no army in history could have.
Just as it did to greece and rome.