Motus Mentis

All healthy organisms, societies included, stabilize in a dynamic equilibrium by managing energy throughput (which of course means that they depend on increasing the entropy of the larger system that supports them).

“Rightism” acknowledges that there are natural principles that determine sustainable configurations and hierarchies, and incorporates that knowledge into societies as traditions.

This vast, incorporated knowledge is far greater than any individual can know or account for in detail. Much of what makes healthy systems stable is that they acknowledge, and adjust to, natural laws and relations.

“Leftism” imposes a far shallower understanding (and set of artificial goals) on this incomprehensibly complex reality, and usually starts by resenting hierarchies, distinctions, and differences.

Because it quickly drives the system away from natural optima it starts leaking heath, prosperity, happiness — which only makes it double down. (Example: our sudden political shift from “equality” to “equity”.) In this way it becomes parasitic on what the system it seeks to destroy has built up.

Once that’s all spent, it collapses.

The disconnection between natural order and intellectually, ideologically imposed “order” is like the difference between just letting your muscle-memory play a difficult piece of music and thinking about how your fingers are going to strike each note.

One produces listenable music, and the other doesn’t.