What is it like to see the world through the leftist lens, and what makes it so seductive?
It’s hating reality so much that the suffering you experience in relation to it unconsciously labels it as perhaps the most unjust phenomenon of all time, and by contrast (NOT by conscious decision, this is important) makes you the most just being in existence; something that is above reality itself by critiquing it.
Once you’re that, all of your ideas become the product of hyper-moral, hyer-compelling insight because a program has been installed in you that ALL dissent itself is sourced from something evil.
This is why it becomes self-worship and God-hating, because fundamentally the existence of reality is Truth (religiously, God).
When you hate reality, you deny it - and to deny it is to shroud your ability to see it intentionally like an addiction, because each denial gives you a hit of omnipotent interpretation.
In other words, you bathe in total darkness (negative theology, critical theory, w/e) so that your mind is the only thing generating input (”light”); guessing, anticipating, assuming, theorizing and visualizing. As there is no outside input, you constantly get proven correct because you are the only signal in the darkness you saturate in, you simulate being your own creator by forcing yourself into continual refusal of reality.
It’s a religion of misery that demands everyone cease understanding reality as it is, so they can experience the all-seeing mind that you have in your self-designed prison of darkness. But it doesn’t “feel” like misery because you interpret it as salvific enlightenment free of constraints (gnosis, w/e).
Because the dark is infinite (hell being a bottomless pit), you have infinite source material to think you are God so long as you stay there. Leaving requires the sacrifice of every vision you have built in your subjective world and trusting the force that made you want to leave reality in the first place; Truth (God). This is why it’s basically impossible to reason with people who are far gone. It’s like a mind that made its own identity trauma, and the trauma is the only stable sense of reality that makes them a good (or worthy) person.
The sub-variants of being above oppressive constructs are all the variants of woke you’ve seen over the past decade, but fundamentally (distilled), it is hatred of anything that constrains absolute freedom (so reality; life).
I talk a lot about the terrible mind-heckery that is the trans cult because it is perhaps the closest in proximity to acting out the distilled reality of this mindset.
In the case of making a claim (any claim) that sex is an essential characteristic, the response is a clever, malleable return to an argument about what a woman is. One without any positive (concrete) terms that make it interpretable by anyone but the person trying to “return to the darkness where your mind is the only thing generating truth.” The point is to always, always stay in the dark realm - to continue with sophisticated or emotional questioning and pontification to slowly (maybe dialectically) pull you into a place where hiding from reality makes your own preferred creative subjective interpretations hyper-valid. This is so you get a hit of the dopamine that is an epiphany with no possibility for dissent; a mystical experience of “seeing the code.”
In that place, the concept of a “definition” is actually LESS than what the coded truth in that realm provides because it becomes limited (and so unable to evolve) once it is established. A definition becomes immoral because it constrains freedom, and paired against an increasingly relevant place (the dark mind who’s light is truth) that enables all things and prevents negative emotions, why wouldn’t it be? The more time that is spent in that realm, the more it becomes necessary to actualize, and the more morally obligated you become to participate in that process. Not doing so becomes a betrayal of true, elevated “goodness.”
(In the case of identity, the true, perfected Self. This is antithetical to the Western religions that involve accepting that you cannot purify yourself of sin but must aim to do good despite your capacity for it)
Unbeknownst to you, the contrast of “objective” and “subjective” become homogenized as the dark realm becomes further legitimized and relied upon for the alleviation of your own suffering. When this happens, the contrast eventually vanishes, and the concept of subjectivity gets erased entirely. This has many psychological implications, but two very important ones:
1. You get to experience a type of certainty that does not exist in normal interaction with reality, obtaining a sense of confidence that is otherwise impossible to attain in reality that the experience of is legitimized and reinforced by its own mechanism.
2. You become narcissistic through an idea that presents itself as something completely antithetical to narcissism – saving the world and its inhabitants from false, unjust pain. You’re seeking the manifestation of your own perfect world, but because subjectivity is erased, and your world is “the real, Just world”, then it is actually everyone’s. So you can’t be self-centered by definition. It becomes a very clever way to justify your desires without even really realizing you’re doing so; it makes it a moral obligation because its everyone’s.
Waking other people up to this becomes a moral duty, but what you are really doing is making people focus so deeply on the negativity that resulted in your enlightenment that they begin to cease believing that they have agency at all, and thus produce your experience in their own unique way, with the entirety of their own unique emotional significances as the fuel source for the ideology.
Once in the dark realm themselves, the psychology repeats, and the addiction begins. It is access to a sense of achievement and goodness without work, something extremely salient to us once exposed.
Seeing other people display these traits makes you view them highly because you yourself have an extremely high sense of morality while here – another self-congratulatory feature that disguises itself as understanding the world through a special virtue.
The “movement” sees subjectivity as the true and only power (giving birth to “postmodernism”), and false “subjectivities” as the only barrier to the utopian world. It must see these false consciousnesses as powerful enough to stop their vision in order to remain consistent in the belief of the power of their own, otherwise their avenue of praxis isn’t conceivable. Consequently, this is convenient in influencing others to adapt the necessary negative (critical) lens that makes them feel robbed of agency. Present oppression is a primary catalyst for the survival of their vison – the suffering that made them wake up to it to begin with is actually required to continue viewing it. There must be an oppressor that motivates the continual retreat into the dark enlightened realm (perhaps part of the addictive behavioral cues that leads to the dopaminergic hit of the ensuing epiphanies; oppression is the low to the high).
Those who aren’t “knowingly” upholding the oppression are believed to be blinded by the power of the false subjectivities, who successfully made the world the way it is by completing their praxis and excluding the other ideas (which is in turn the leftist agenda).
The evidence is that they are able to stop seeing the world the way they learned, and so the power of the mind must be the true nature of reality. Otherwise why would you be able to do something like “stop believing in truth”? How could it be “above” you if you have the capacity to imagine something better? How could something that can see greater than what is be beneath? This is the logic, that the conceptual, all seeing mind is highest; that we are highest if only we’d agree to see it as such (enter, collectivism).
This is the kind of stuff that Marxism does - see darkness everywhere, but with yourself as the one who will bring the light of your own mind to fill the entire world; a species being. But more deeply than Marxism, it is the ethos of the Serpent (Gnostic), or Cain.
The impulse to make a change to the world to attain the realization of the paradise seen inside via contrast to your own unjust suffering is what the infamous revolutionaries have iterated upon, but they didn’t invent it. It’s one of the options humans have when faced with adversity: reject, refuse, become resentful (deny) – or accept, act, and prosper (believe).
One carries with it the slow destruction of all things for a world that doesn’t exist, and the other sacrifices the ideal to make our world meaningful.
Jeff Bargowski can be found on X . Jeff was sucked into gnostic/esoteric ideas for 15+ years. Kept old journaling - trying to paint the inner psychology of subjectively defined "truth”
Well timed, I needed this.