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Posted by LaudateAgno on 2026-February-20 21:15:05, Friday
In reply to Re: I don't understand BL's hatred of the right posted by Bromios on 2026-February-19 02:33:59, Thursday

My version:
The Right are wrong, but the Left are not even wrong.
(I allude to a remark attributed to physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who criticized a presentation for being so incoherent that one could not ascribe any truth value to it at all.)

Though the truly far right may be stupid, the right overall is not entirely wrong concerning sexuality; its universe, especially that of its Christian adherents, is what I'd call pre-Copernican. The Right gets the facts wrong, but has at least not given up on the possibility of a Truth that gets them right.

The Left has given up. The Left is all about power, and reduces everything to power, domination and victimization, so pervasively that it sees Truth itself as an effect of power. Its position vis-a-vis sexuality is too vague to undergo the corrective of any quasi-Copernican revolution: it has rejected every project of truth from the outset.

The Right, however naively, continues to believe in such things as human nature and sexual difference. These beliefs are necessary, if not sufficient, conditions for human flourishing, for human being. Its demonizations are deeply misguided and reprehensible, but are at least seek to take stock in Truth, and might be corrected.

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