It's always going to be that fluctuation and feedback, between the anarchies of desire and the tyrannies of judgement.
The fact is, an objective point of view is an oxymoron, so we all have to deal with our own subjectivity and that of those around us.
The problem is when we assign absolutist trust in our own desires and/or judgements, assuming anyone who disagrees is a misbegotten fool, if not actively evil.
Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.
Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead. To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.
The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion around the time the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic. Basically validating The Big Guy Rules.
To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict, between the forces of righteousness and evil, while in nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. That's because it is the function of culture to synchronize society into one larger communal organism, using the same languages, rules and measures. Yet nature is so diverse and yet integrated, because we all don't march to the beat of the same drummer. It is multicultural, not monocultural.
When we all band together into our tribes and shout insults at the others, we only empower the more extreme among them. When it is between liberals, the side of desire and growth, versus conservatives, the side of structure and order, eventually the conservatives win, because they are more ordered and organized.
Liberals might have lots of energy, but as history and the current reality shows, it is rarely focused and when it is, becomes its own form of absolutism.
The real power of the left is sustaining and maintaining a civil and forward looking debate, understanding and accepting that conservatives have valid issues as well. Then it remains a nuanced conversation, fluctuating in the middle, not a mud slinging contest between the crazies on both sides.
Remember, the rainbow is a spectrum. When you churn up all the colors as one, it's just a medium brown.
