Daily Archives: December 23, 2024

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On Compassion and Its Opposite

In its most simplified version, the one-dimensional political spectrum spans from individualism on the right to collectivism on the left. For now, let’s ignore the and various two- and three-dimensional models that add much-needed nuance to real-world ideologies. Let us also certainly ignore party labels, because those are largely irrelevant to the current discussion; we will, however, refer to right-wing ideology as conservative and left-wing ideology as progressive, and the reasons for maintaining this distinction will hopefully become clear. Right-wing […]Read more »