The underlaying problem is not so much that people are drawn to the various political poles, in their various degrees and fixations, as it is that we have a linear, goal oriented cultural paradigm, in a reality that is cyclical, reciprocal and feedback driven. Such that people on both sides of the equation see themselves on the road to paradise, so those going the other way are deluded.

Think of reality as a dichotomy of energy and the forms it manifests. Even galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in.

As biological beings, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory system to process the energy driving us on, along with a central nervous system to sort through all the forms and information precipitating out, as well as referee the emotions and impulses bubbling up.

Society is organic energies bubbling up, as civil and cultural forms coalesce in. Youth and age, liberal and conservative.

So we are stuck between this anarchy of desire and tyranny of judgement.

Libertarianism tends toward economic anarchy, leavened by a bit of cultural and social judgementalism.

The irony of our individualistic ethos is that it creates an atomized culture, that is more easily controlled by institutional authority and mediated by parasitic financial mechanisms. Networks matter as much as nodes.

Since I’m off to work, here is an essay I recently posted;

https://medium.com/the-philosophers-stone/peeling-paradigms-a47adde669d7