General Discussion

coherent plan or ideology that drives what they do, because we understand rational policy and long term planning. We have formed a mental model of the world, however imperfect, that seeks to be informed by fact and aims for the general well-being of society. They do not have that capacity or share that perspective.

They are an excrescence of the worst aspects of modern culture, which is in turn an excrescence of the worst aspects of capitalism. The right is a symptom of the impending collapse of civilization. They are instinctively accelerating that collapse because they know they can profit off it in the near term. Some of them, like the tech bros and the billionaires know this, and rationalize it with absurd pipe dreams about transhumanism. But in the end they just don't care. Entitlement provides an illusory defense against the inevitability of death, and they're addicted to that illusion. For them giving up that entitlement, which is what it would take to save civilization, is tantamount to suicide. I have no doubt they would rather incinerate the world with nuclear weapons than concede their power and privilege.

Anyway, that's my opinion.