The Barrow

You cannot be a decent or coherent person in [current year] while attempting to maintain ideological purity (at least, as it is commonly defined for us.) You cannot have a normal, decent human life and get along with your neighbors if you attempt to do so. The late 2010s and early 2020s were a grand experiment in this and it was a disaster for our society.

Paradoxes exist and are in fact required for the functioning of our psyches, societies, and even the material, physical world around us.

I have embraced ideological miscegenation in virtually all its forms. There are many views I hold today which I would have believed were firmly “right-wing” ten years ago, and many “left-wing” beliefs I still hold dearly.

We all need to embrace this, lest we get pulled off into some extreme direction.

You can believe genocide is bad and still believe sometimes violence is necessary.

You can believe in sexual freedom while also wholeheartedly believing in the family.

You can believe in strength and beauty while still believing in tolerance and largess.

You can believe in more conservative social norms in public while believing in privacy and even extreme freedoms in private!

I beg you all to get off the Weimar train of extreme partisan politics and radicalization.