Been increasingly often seeing lefties claiming righties are \u201cdenying the humanity\u201d of some people or \u201cnot seeing [them] as human\u201d and righties being honestly baffled, like \u201cyeah, they\u2019re human, what… else would they be?\u201d
More and more I\u2019m thinking the lefties see humans as sacred, and internalizing this belief so thoroughly as to consider it a universal fact, so that if they see someone treating people as profane that\u2019s the interpretive frame they go for?
The righties, of course, are divided between a religious camp that identifies the sacred as something external and superior to humanity, and a growing camp of seculars that\u2019s not humanist but Nietzschean, which depending on how you take it has no \u201csacred\u201d, or identifies it with the strong few aristocrats able to impose their wills on the world
Which is to say that I guess the 80s-90s religious warnings that a threatening rival religion of \u201csecular humanism\u201d was on the rise were\u2026 right? Maybe masked by the fact that the humanist and Nietzchean and remnant Freudian streams weren\u2019t clearly distinguished yet?
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