this plate of scrammbled eggs is a perfect opportunity to show you how easy it is to get everything wrong when you attempt to do philosophy.
for any direction, left, right, up, or down, all issues come eventually down to morality. so if there is something about the ‘left in the west’ to be criticized, it would need to be a problem that the right, up, and down didn’t also possess. and since the right, up and down also experiences the problem of morality, such a statement can only mean ‘that morality is not like this one, and therefore it is wrong.’ and how is this done? by presuming that morality has different sources, when in fact, it does not.
the next step would be to try and argue that morality is derived from religious doctrine. this, too, is false. morality is a biologically evolved ‘mechanism’, and consists of a combination of behavioral tendencies that have been inherited because they’ve proven to increase the fitness level of the group. the entire range of human behavior, from compassion to violence, has served in some way to be conducive to this, or else it wouldn’t have evolved and would not be present in the spectrum of human behavior.
what he’s done is isolated a small set of such behaviors, called attention to the fact that they are taught to be virtuous by [insert some religion], and forgotten that such behaviors do not have their origins in the teaching of [insert some religion]. the [insert some religion] only proselytizes set x of human behaviors, claiming they wouldn’t exist without [insert god of some religion] creating them.
so this gentleman first tries to vilify the ‘left’ by saying they’re ‘only about morality’, when in fact wherever he’s from is ‘only about morality’ as well. second, he tries to delineate something specific about moral behavior down to a specific religion (which he vilifes, as well), calling it responsible for the virtues he is criticizing, without realizing that those virtues are held in high regard by any practicing culture, be they left, right, up or down, simply because they are ‘intrinsic’ to human behavior.
so for example, he might say ‘compassion practiced by christians or marxists is bullshit, while compassion practiced by pagans is not.’
it’s neither here nor there if a specific culture believes their virtues are ordained by god. so one wouldn’t say ‘culture x is wrong because they believe their compassion is ordained by god’. one would have to say this particular kind of compassion is in question, and proceed their argument from there. and let me save you the trouble of trying to do this and just say; you won’t be able to do that, either.
the rabid foaming at the mind continues:
this is not philosophy… well i mean it is because it’s got all the necessary informal fallacies to be called such… but it’s more of a hyperbolic rant expressing that beautiful existential plummet into frustration and despair. and i say it is beautiful because it certainly is; it is one more exhibit i would present to the court of the crimson king to prove that man is, indeed, a wonderful mistake. and i do this as an indifferent artist who might shake his finger at the gods and shout ‘look what you’ve done to this poor creature!’ for it to even be possible that someone become so entrenched in such a mental abyss of confusion and rage, and have to live it for decades, well… that’s quite the grievance to be lodged against the gods.
in five hundred years, every detail of that misanthropic study above, everything thought to be a great danger to humanity, to the quality of life and integrity… every emergency declared to be a threat to the dignity of man, will be so long gone as to not even be mentioned in history books anymore. if one could look back upon the continuum of that species man and find that meager seventy+ years of that single life that spent its time worrying about everything in a nervous and raging fervor, you’d not have enough time to blink your eye before it was over.
if you feel that you might be such a life, i would direct you toward the blue light, and hope that you might find it before it’s too late.