Amerika

This site makes a unique contribution to the political dialogue by viewing politics as psychology and economics instead of taking ideology at face value.

For example, our theory of Crowdism says that people in groups act in individualistic ways under cover of the crowd, ignoring real problems to focus on distractions that make them feel in control and therefore, allow them to manage their mental state like with drugs, overeating, gambling, or promiscuity.

In other words, human group behavior is not controlled by evil elites but a product of human groups, and unless we have the brains to interrupt it, always leads us to a path of collapse.

Similar we can view Leftism as rationalization. Instead of accepting reality and maximizing it, they settle for critiquing reality, judging it, acting emotionally, and therefore feeling more powerful than it. It is the equivalent of sticking out a middle finger to time, nature, wisdom, logic, history, and common sense.

They rationalize what they want as part of whatever their critique decides is moral good, and then rationalize the ongoing decline as “progress” instead of slow collapse.

It seems to me that Leftism is also a rationalization of failure in order to stop trying; people wish to avoid striving — which entails risk and therefore, social risk — so that they can never fail, and they rationalize the resulting conditions as “good” because they are socially very safe for the individual, and Crowds are made of individualists.

On the other hand, we must address what James Joyce queried us about in Ulysses, namely whether we want to say YES to live. Liberalism says NO; it rejects the question of living by removing sources of anxiety and replacing them with appetites. But to say YES, we must accept risk and reality as it is, then build within that house.

Tags: contrarian ironism, james joyce, rationalization, risk