tire wrote:I'm telling you what I think. I think everyone's "best interest" is of equal value. But I think the "best interest" of a citizen of a nation is of HIGHER value than "the best interest" of a foreigner.
You're missing the fundamental dividing point between left and right. Left views the world as being in a state of surplus, hence sharing lifts all boats and doesn't drag anyone down. Left also thinks, like Anne Frank, that everyone is fundamentally good. The right thinks in terms of scarcity, that charity beyond a certain point is stealing, and that people are fundamentally sinful. There is NO WAY to reconcile these two viewpoints.
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcrip ... als-2018-2
The human brain is wired into two modes, cooperation and competition. When you enter into competition (or war) your empathic centers are suppressed. This has to happen in order to be able to do what needs to be done. This is exactly why the social justice/bleeding heart argumentation style of the left falls on deaf ears with the right. If the right view their world as being under some sort of siege, they are simply not going to be moved by moral guilt/shaming tactics. The left is more of a feminine force that spawns out of a mother-hen complex. That's why they call it the "nanny state". Weak law enforcement, "understanding" the perpetrator or absolving them of guilt, etc... The right is a masculine force of strong defense, business-centric, law and order, and the military-industrial complex.
If the endpoint of our current global civilization is collapse, there will be no room for liberalism and collectivism. Conflict will rise to the point where everyone will come into a siege mentality and shift to the right. Power will break down into smaller and smaller groups or allegiances.
Liberalism is a great ideal, but it is a luxury that can only exist in times of extended peace and surplus. This is why the golden age of democratic Greece, for instance, was incredibly short.
Now, the mouse utopia thesis, that's a whole other ball of wax. That suggests that happiness/wellness may break down not due to resource constraints but due to the knock-on effects of overcrowding, information overload, an increased feeling of being unimportant and having no voice.