| | Interesting insight here.
Apparently, if you are a Leftie, you cannot think of all of humanity as one whole. Instead, you mentally bifurcate humanity into classes, such as the "haves" and "have nots." All information that comes into your skull thereafter -- all of it -- is first filtered through this previous bifurcation; so that nothing good can be "good for everybody", only "good for one class of people" (as against all other classes of people).
That's how it can be that Binswanger thinks that Objectivism -- or, for instance, Ronald Reagan's "City on the Hill" speech -- speaks to and/or for all of humanity, whereas a Leftie cannot see it that way. I think it was Churchill who said if you aren't a liberal when young, then you have no heart, but if you aren't a conservative when old, then you have no brain (if not Churchill, please correct me). When I recited that quote to a Leftie friend-o'-mine, he said the reason oldies change their mind on politics as they age, is because they got rich ... and they want to protect their accumulated wealth. He could not see any reason deeper than this shallow, hollow, concrete-bound, dog-eat-dog reason to be a conservative.
It's like he was missing part of his brain, or something.
Ed
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