Nightmares, Leftwing & Rightwing
Corporate Machiavelli | October 23, 2020 | by machiavellicorporate
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CONTENTS:

1) PREAMBLE
2) LEFTWING ATTITUDE
3) RIGHTWING ATTITUDE
4) LEFTWING NIGHTMARES
            4A) COMMUNISM
            4B) SOCIALISM, DEFICIT SPENDING
            4C) AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, BLANK SLATE
THEORY EGALITARIANISM
5) RIGHTWING NIGHTMARE
            5A) HOLOCAUST, NAZIS
            5B) SLAVERY, CONFEDERATE SOUTH
            5C) MEDICAL EXTORTION, CAPITALIST
MEDICINE
6) HISTORICAL PATTERN, KILL THE RICH AND TAKE THEIR STUFF
            6A) WEALTH CREATION, INEQUALITY RISES
            6B) ENVY AND VIOLENT REVOLUTION
            6C) MASS STARVATION
            6D) HISTORICAL EXAMPLES
7) AMERICAN EDUCATION, LEFTWING NEGLECT
8) EPILOGUE

1) PREAMBLE:

If either side of the political spectrum wields too much power, your
society can end up in Hell.

However, the particular versions of Hell created by the Leftwing and
Rightwing do differ.

2) LEFTWING ATTITUDE:

Leftwing people are concerned about inequality; they consider large
gaps between the rich and the poor to be a bad thing.

They are correct to have this concern; intense levels of inequality
have pernicious effects, including higher homicide rates and a
heightened probability of violent revolution.

So far as the maintenance of civilization is concerned, intense wealth
inequality is a destabilizing factor.

The tragedy is that many of the solutions Leftwingers offer for
alleviating inequality are foolish; they do more harm than good.

3) RIGHTWING ATTITUDE:

Rightwing people tend to be unconcerned with inequality, mostly
because they assume that the rich deserve their relative wealth and
the poor deserve their relative poverty.

They are unlikely to implement policies to alleviate inequality, and
thereby are unlikely to foolishly implement policies that make things
worse.

The pathology of Rightwingers is that they often have a callous
indifference regarding the suffering of those at the bottom of the
dominance hierarchy; many Rightwingers view the poor with disdain.

4) LEFTWING NIGHTMARES:

Catastrophes driven by the actions of Leftwingers usually take the
form of the Leftwing implementing a policy in an attempt to eliminate
or reduce inequality, but the policy having unintended side effects
with disastrous consequences.

4A) COMMUNISM:

Communists are Leftwingers who demand zero wealth inequality; they
demand equality of outcome when wealth is built.

This is pathological for a simple reason; the only way for zero wealth
inequality to exist (so far as we have yet discovered) is for everyone
to have nothing.

The Communist regimes of the 20th century have done a spectacular job
of attaining equality of outcome; in countries run by communists, the
gaps between the rich and the poor are very small because everyone has
little or nothing.

Historical examples of Communism being implemented include Ukraine
from 1930 – 1940 (The Holodomor), and China from 1950 – 1980 (Mao
Zedong’s regime).

In both cases, enforcing equality of outcome led to mass starvation.

4B) SOCIALISM, DEFICIT SPENDING:

Socialism is less authoritarian than communism in the sense that
socialist regimes allow free market capitalism to run (people can
freely engage in trade as they see fit), but the rich are taxed, and
the money gathered via taxation is distributed to the poor or to the
entire population in the form of the government spending money on
infrastructure, or brazenly giving out free stuff.

Socialism _can work_ if the government spending is kept down to a
reasonable level, and it is funded via taxation.

However, when government spending rises to an unsustainable level, and
it is funded via the _government borrowing money rather than via
taxation_, it’s a catastrophe waiting to happen. Sooner or later,
the government’s debts will become so immense that they cannot
possibly be paid off.

The government will either declare bankruptcy, or print money to pay
off its debts (thereby causing hyperinflation). In either case, the
given society will experience economic disaster.

Everyone will suffer, but none more than the poor. For the rich an
economic downturn is a minor inconvenience. For the poor it is a
desperate struggle to survive.

Denmark (1990 – 2020) is a modern example of socialism working well.

Venezuela (1990 – 2020) is a modern example of socialism leading to
mass starvation.

4C) AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, BLANK SLATE THEORY EGALITARIANISM:

Blank Slate Theory asserts that all psychological differences between
individuals and groups are the result of environmental factors, never
genetics; all humans are born with a mind that is a blank slate.

For good or for bad, Blank Slate Theory is _factually incorrect_; it
is factually correct to say that every thing that psychologists have
ever discovered is significantly driven by genetics.

Individuals and groups differ significantly in their psychological
makeup, and for every facet of a person’s psychological makeup,
genetics plays at least some role.

Affirmative Action is a policy designed by Leftwing Americans that
attempts to enforce equality of outcome between racial groups, and
between the 2 genders (men and women).

The Leftwingers who desire Affirmative Action assume that in any case
where men do better than women (on average), and in any case where one
racial group does better than another (on average), the only
explanation is discrimination.

In light of the assumption that inequitable outcomes are the result of
discrimination, affirmative action seems reasonable as a bulwark
against the effects of discrimination.

However, in reality inequitable outcomes between genders and racial
groups are often driven by differentials in the average level of
competence with certain tasks between genders or racial groups.

In many cases, the reason men make it to the top of a profession more
often than women is because men are on average better performers
within the given domain.

In many cases, the reason one racial group makes it to the top of a
profession more often than another, is because that racial group is on
average better at performing within that domain than the other.

In America from 1970 – 2020, Affirmative Action in university
admissions has meant holding women to lower standards than men, and
blacks to lower standards than East Asians and whites.

In effect Affirmative Action has meant discriminating against more
competent men in favor of less competent women, and more competent
East Asians and whites in favor of less competent blacks.

It is gender discrimination and racial discrimination that the
Leftwing approves of.

5) RIGHTWING NIGHTMARES:

Catastrophes driven by the Rightwing are marked by callous
indifference regarding the suffering of those towards the bottom of
the dominance hierarchy, or even worse, a sadistic desire to see the
powerless suffer.

5A) NAZIS, HOLOCAUST:

The German Nazis were Rightwingers who wanted to rid the world of
anyone they consider undesirable; Jews, homosexuals, and seriously ill
people.

The violence the Nazis carried out seems to have been driven by HIGH
ORDERLINESS AND DISGUST SENSITIVITY_._ The Nazis didn’t fear the
Jews, or hate them; they were disgusted by them.

High orderliness drives disgust sensitivity, and high orderliness is
also what drives Rightwing political preference.

It seems to be the case that pathologically high levels of orderliness
made the Nazis extremely Rightwing and also drove their desire to kill
anyone who made them feel disgust.

5B) SLAVERY, CONFEDERATE SOUTH:

The Confederates enslaved millions of people, and justified it by
asserting that the people they enslaved (blacks) were their racial
inferiors.

Is it morally acceptable to enslave people, force them to work for
you, and give them miserable lives? This is one of the easiest moral
questions in the history of the world, and tragically it is also one
of the most consequential.

The Confederates got this question wrong because they had the
Rightwing bias of assuming those at the bottom of the hierarchy
deserve to suffer.

5C) MEDICAL EXTORTION, CAPITALIST MEDICINE:

In modern America (1990 – 2020) medical care is largely handled by
the free market. This has led to life saving medical care being sold
for extortionate prices.

Medical care is a product ripe for extortion because it is the only
category of product for which THE DEMAND IS INFINITY. People are
willing to pay an infinite amount of money in order to not die.

The result has been that many (perhaps millions) of Americans have
died, simply because they did not have enough money to buy the medical
care that would have saved their life; diabetics routinely die because
they don’t have enough money to buy insulin.

The response from Rightwing Americans has been ‘Who cares?’

The horror is not the reality of people dying unnecessarily, but the
seemingly psychopathic indifference of the Rightwing regarding those
who die.

Notably, the phenomenon of poor people dying because they can’t buy
medical care sold at extortionate prices is unheard of in most other
industrialized countries who have socialized healthcare rather than
capitalist healthcare (Canada, Australia, and The United Kingdom).

6) HISTORICAL PATTERN, KILL THE RICH AND TAKE THEIR STUFF

€œTHE DISCOURSE THAT PRECEDES GENOCIDE€¦THE ENHANCEMENT OF A
SENSE OF VICTIMIZATION€¦ON THE GROUP THAT€™S GOING TO COMMIT
THE GENOCIDE. THEIR SENSE OF BEING VICTIMS IS MUCH HEIGHTENED BY THE
DEMAGOGUES WHO ARE TRYING TO STIR UP THIS SORT OF HATRED. THEY SAY
‘LOOK, YOU€™VE BEEN OPPRESSED IN A VARIETY OF WAYS, AND THESE
ARE THE PEOPLE WHO DID IT, AND THEY€™RE NOT GOING TO STOP DOING
IT, AND THIS TIME WE€™RE GOING TO GET THEM BEFORE THEY GET
US.’€ €“JORDAN PETERSON (WHEN VICTIMHOOD LEADS TO GENOCIDE
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeYRK16PIlA])

The following is a historical pattern that has killed untold millions
of people, perhaps billions. Usually it is a pattern where the
violence is instigated by Leftwing Revolutionaries, rather than
Rightwing Reactionaries.

THE 3 STEPS IN THE PATTERN ARE AS FOLLOWS:

 WEALTH CREATION, INEQUALITY RISES

 ENVY AND VIOLENT REVOLUTION

 MASS STARVATION

6A) WEALTH CREATION, INEQUALITY RISES: 

High IQ people find a way to build wealth. Wealth being created is
good for everyone, since everyone gets richer on an absolute basis.

Unfortunately, as wealth is created it is distributed inequitably; a
tiny minority of people get most of the spoils (pareto distribution).

6B) ENVY AND VIOLENT REVOLUTION: 

Low IQ people are bad at building wealth, and end up far poorer than
the high IQ people who are rich. The poor low IQ people envy the rich
high IQ people.

Leftwing Revolutionaries tell the poor people “The only reason the
rich have so much more than you, is because they stole it from you.
Kill them, and take their stuff!”

The poor people proceed to do this.

6C) MASS STARVATION: 

With the high IQ rich people killed off or exiled, the people who are
most capable of creating wealth are eliminated. As such, little to no
wealth is created, and everyone ends up poor.

This is very likely to result in mass starvation especially if the
rich people killed off were those who were highly competent at
_farming._

6D) HISTORICAL EXAMPLES:

-Ukraine from 1930 – 1940 (Dekulakization, The Holodomor)

-Rhodesia/Zimbabwe from 1960 – 2020 (Robert Mugabe’s Regime)

7) AMERICAN EDUCATION, LEFTWING NEGLECT:

The American education system does an excellent job of informing
students about the existence of Rightwing atrocities; the slavery that
took place in the Confederate South and the genocide that took place
in Nazi Germany are covered extensively.

However, LEFTWING ATROCITIES SUCH AS COMMUNISM ARE NEVER MENTIONED.

So far as American educators are concerned, the atrocities of the
Rightwing must never be forgotten, and the atrocities of the Leftwing
must never be mentioned.

8) EPILOGUE:

The Leftwing will tell you that those at the bottom of the hierarchy
are oppressed, and that something ought to be done to alleviate their
suffering. This is true.

However, be cautious; most of the ideas Leftwing regimes provide to
alleviate the suffering of those at the bottom make things _worse_ in
the long term rather than better.

Communists always think they’re one revolution away from creating a
utopia.

The pathologies in the minds of Leftwing people are numerous and
complex. The pathology of Rightwing people is singular and simple;
callous indifference regarding the suffering of those at the bottom of
the dominance hierarchy.

In the Leftwing, you will find insanity.

In the Rightwing, you will find cruelty.

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