The Meaninglessness of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’
Commentary
It is easy to become trapped by words. They may as well be etched in stone, given that they betray their origins in time and the meanings of the time they were created, even though they evolve in usage.
We are now in the jaws of this trap.
The political terms of “left” and “right,” having served for just two centuries (since 1789, in France), are now misleading and, to a substantial extent, dangerous. They lead us to false assumptions about the current socio-political divide. The current schism in Western democracies is not between “left” and “right,” but between more fundamental philosophies….