Does The Left Live In La La Land?

追加: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]conservatives consistently score higher on happiness than progressives, and I offer a speculative, but I think quite plausible, explanation, which relates to your question. The conservative wakes up in the morning and says, "Yeah, our society may not be perfect, but there's a lot of things that are worth conserving, hence I'm conservative, right? So, existentially, I'm happy.

[00:00:21]Yes, we can we can tinker here, and we can tinker there, but overall, we have a good system."

[00:00:25]>> It's a happier perspective.

[00:00:27]>> happier perspective. The progressive wakes up and says, "We are a racist, misogynist, we had slavery, we indigenous, transgender, Islamophobia.

[00:00:37]Around the corner lies unicornia. And so, if only I can erase everything, I get rid of all existing manifestations of the current evil society, around the corner, I will have existential glee."

[00:00:51]And so, I think that's why there's that reflex in many of these totalitarian ideologies to erase everything that came before you.