Reply #71: There's no way real social change can happen without it

[ChillbertKChesterton]

This is where the hippy movement failed. When they could have been organizing and working relentlessly to change the system, they found salvation in their inner-experience. Drugs, hedonism, free love, anti-authority and the rest of it for it's own sake is entirely within the realm of the existing power structure. Those things on their own are easily co-opted by the powers that be, and turned against us.

Capitalism turned the values of inner-experience, self-actualization, enjoyment without limits, free sexuality, and so on, into easy commodities. These are the exact ways products today are sold to us.

After the movement in the 60's, leftism fell apart and the progress of working people and social justice has stagnated ever since.

If the left doesn't "grow up" so to speak, nothing significant will happen. Real change will require work, it will require discipline, it will require leaders and authority, it will require a sense of duty, it will require a re-establishing of boundaries, taboos, and limits.

Today's capitalism lets people do anything they want, except for anything that will make a difference. If people want to create real change, they will have to impose their own limits, their own rules, their own authority.