Hear hear, Stray & Mofre!
Aside from the problem of dividing the world into a silly "Coke vs. Pepsi" Left/Right continuum, the thing that drives me bonkers is simple partisanship. Like, let's not contemplate facts-on-the-ground and formulate policies and issues that are pragmatic and workable, let's just follow the chanting herd that wears OUR particular label -- democrat, conservative, anarchist, whatever that label is. Too often the labels themselves are defined as simply "anti-something", like "I hate democrats, therefore I'm a republican" or "I hate capitalism, therefore I'm a socialist."
And postmodernism -- yeah, shove the whole mess down a hole and let them deconstruct and discourse themselves to death. Instead of the old adage "nothing is true, everything is permitted" it's more like "nothing is true, so don't even bother."
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