Aldarion
Neoreactionary Monarchist
Except if you want to be ground-up, you have to be right-wing, because Left-wing has literally nothing with which to replace the tradition and other things which allowed and allow for right-wing pseudo-anarchist communes to function.See, I completely disagree with this definition. You've completely combined two axes into one. Right wing has very little reliance on being ground up. Frequently it is, frequently it's the other way around. It's utterly orthagonal to that.
Leftists also can do ground up stuff, like hippie communes and Kibbutzes. Those are still lefty though.
Hence, the ground-up/top-down is part of the Authoritarian/Anarchy axis. And I'd toss the human vs divine stuff as that's not useful for a discussion as it has the inherently different meanings based on the beliefs of the speaker.
All I have ever heard of lefty hippie communes and Kibbutzes is how they fall apart. Precisely because they have nothing with which to replace the state.
So even accepting your premise, Left is still inherently pro-authoritarian, because it is the only way they can ever function.
And authoritarianism is itself a consequence of modernism. Even early modern absolute monarchs have absolutely nothing on modern-day "free" and "democratic" governments.
I wasn't talking about your beliefs, I was talking about the "horseshoe theory".No, I don't view centrists ideologies as good. I'm just saying that the only time debating about what sort of government to have matters (as opposed to more or less government), is when you are in the middle of the Anarchy/Authoritarian axis.
Basically, there is a lot of debate about what to teach in government schools, because we are somewhere in the middle of the Anarchy/Authoritarian axis (not right in the middle or even close, but definitely somewhere in the middle). If we were in an perfectly Authoritarian state, all that would be 'taught' is rigid obedience to the state, with no room for debate. In a perfect anarchist society, there would be no government run schools.
In fact, this is why I view centrism as bad: it causes political division. If we were further towards freedom, there wouldn't be so much political debates dividing the country as the government wouldn't have as much power to do stuff.