interactiverobert

Excerpts from this stack exchange post. This is a fascinating discussion and way over my head. You must read it, because I've made no attempt to adequately summarize with these excerpts. In fact, the content I pulled is barely tied to the question. Is There a Philosophical Basis for the Conflation of the Cultural Left and the Economic/Fiscal Left? The question(s): Is there a philosophical reason why cultural left and economic left go together, or is it a historical coincidence? Do they share any fundamental principles other than changing the status-quo? It seems to me that Left Hegelians seem to align with the cultural left, and Marx started out as a Left Hegelian, before going to formulate Communism. Is there a relation between the two? Is that the origin of the correlation? Is there any merit at all to the idea that the various aspects of the cultural left in today's Western discourse did indeed originate with the Frankfurt School? Did members of the Frankfurt school ...

It's about time for another public diary entry, but there's just too much to cover and I don't want to crap it all out here without thinking. It doesn't matter than no one is reading. This is supposed to be where I take what's been happening in my life and process, synthesize it until I have it distilled down to something worth sharing, as a way of helping to make good changes and insights stick. To wear the groove deeper. I don't want it to be over edited or sanitized. Not necessarily organized, but at least comprehensible, instead of stream of consciousness ramblings. It may seem that way. Maybe it has been. But that's not how I want this to be. I think of my first public diary post: On the Importance of Personal Development. Good stuff in there. Well thought out. Maybe not so much since then, but enough has happened that I'd like to put together something similar. I guess we'll see if that happens.