Hey, look, it’d be nice to have a group. But if I talked about Biden, Covid, Epstein, the Clintons, the Ukraine/Russian war and a whole host of other topics I wouldn’t just be called right wing, I’d be called a dangerous right wing extremist conspiracy theorist - that last is correct at least. I mean, I could talk to Naomi Wolf about some of that and not get called that, but otherwise…..The country I am in now is at least liberal, if not lefty in some way still, but my reactions are often quite conservative or right wing when it comes to privacy and the condescension of experts which is built into the system even more than in the US. I’m often assumed to be middle to conservative here by people who don’t know me. I’ve gotten into trouble for my views on Islam (though also Israel, sure), trans stuff - and the irony there is in my belief system there actually is room for someone being ‘in the wrong body’ while there isn’t in the belief systems of the people who think I’m transphobic.
My roots are in the left, if on the anarchist can get along often with libertarians in many ways left. I am vastly more comfortable with diversity than most on the right or left - the left having very shallow ideas of what diversity is. My wife who shares many of the same ideas and did before I met her is much more likely to blurt things out. Me, I don’t bother, there’s no gathering where being honest about stuff wouldn’t end up with me surrounded in boring heated discussions.
Are you conservative? If yes, could you contrast from your own life. I had trouble following the above quote. Well, actually whatever you are, as long as you are like a conservative related to that paragraph, let me know how you would describe your relation to place and idealism etc.
Feeling of home: I tried many times to create a feeling of home only to have it disintegrate. I grew up in NYC, but moved to a very different kind of neighborhood at 8. I made close friends, family was a mess, but these scattered out of love, work, college. I suppose in a way people are my home. Then I set up a new life somewhere outside of cities, but there also people moved and shifted. My connection to nature there felt like home. But I could no longer stay there. I moved out of the states when I fell in love with someone in another country. I moved there. She is my home, I guess. There is an island my mother’s side of the family owned part of. That feels like home. But will I ever go there again. I doubt it. I feel scattered bits of home and I am in touch with most parts but mainly by distance. I’d love to have and have had a place to go with home, but modern life made that pretty much impossible. Having people as home is very tricky since they move and turn inward to their families.
This is all quite personal and but if you’re asking about psychic structures here’s some of it.
You could take this as a political stance or a philosophical stance, that people are home, which might make me not conservative in this way. But it’s not like I have this as an ideal. I deal with life as it comes as best I can. And thinking of people as home has torn me apart at regular intervals. Place - I would love it. But where would that be….? A painful question for me right now, extremely.
Anyway, given how pissed off everyone gets and how fast they want to identify your team and either smash you or have a shared hate session, it’d be great if you could give me a ‘he is a lefty’ certificate. Then maybe I’ll feel like I can talk with half the crowd. With right wing people, hm, if they are pro-trump, well, then they will likely reject me, while yelling things at me that I already believe about Harris, the Clintons and Biden. I’m not sure what Obama did. He increased radically the destruction of whistleblowers and after attacking Wall st. invited them in right away to key positions. But put me with what get’s called the nutjob right wing and I breathe a sigh of relief and talk freely about many taboo things. But sooner or later, sure, we’ll end up on something we don’t agree on.