As we enter a new era of cultural conflict, old political boundaries no longer serve us.

 As we enter a new era of cultural conflict, old political boundaries no longer serve us

• We urgently need a new paradigm if we are to de-escalate our political rhetoric, return to the realm of civilized discourse and understand what we are facing.
• The political division of “left” and “right” has become jumbled assortments of specific policy alignments that have nothing to do with each other, at least without internalizing a series of tenuous assumptions about what links them.

Covid-19: The Breaking Point

• While 2016 and Donald Trump's election marked the beginning of the end of the old paradigm, the true breaking point occurred in 2020 with the Covid crisis and the World Economic Forum's declaration of a "Great Reset"
• Governments began to impose, from the top down, mass social engagement with digital and biomedical technology and use it to govern the minutiae of an individual's private life
• For the first time, on a mass scale, people were ordered to take medical tests, log their smallest movements on smartphone apps, and inject experimental pharmaceutical products in order to travel, leave their house, or keep their jobs
• At the same time, governments and international organizations began advertising their intent to digitally transform society

The Hippie-Conservative Alliance: Unlikely Bedfellows or Birds of a Feather?

• There has always been overlap between hippies and conservatives, but in 2020 something fundamental shifted, shattering traditional barriers between these two groups and uniting them over a common cause: freedom from techno-tyranny and connection to the natural, physical, personal world.
• Both groups think that we have lost a body of knowledge and a way of being in world that was normal for our ancestors
• They both think that with the emergence of evermore sophisticated technology some things have been lost, perhaps making us less human
• The problem is that the latter philosophy, a mechanistic one, needs to enlist all elements in order to work
• While a natural philosophy can be forced on others by authoritarian elements, the natural world tends to develop harmony among chaotic elements in a grassroots way
• A machine, on the other hand, ceases to function when even one of its parts stops doing what it's told

Facing a Mythic Moment: How the “Left/Right” Stereotype Clouds Our Discourse

• The outdated left/right paradigm has come to stand for a series of unrelated stances on specific issues
• We urgently need a new paradigm for conceptualizing the cultural landscape
• A value-based paradigm framed within a cultural landscape is a holistic approach
• An individual's worldview can often predict their stance on a particular issue, and for this reason individuals with similar worldviews tend to make clusters of similar decisions
• This kind of stereotyped or issue-based political paradigm also kills nuance and squashes interesting discourse
• It encourages us to develop opinionated stances on isolated, abstract concepts, from which there can be no compromise

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-left-right-divide-is-obsolete/