The Old Left, the New Left, and the Woo Left.

 

 The Old Left.

 

The Old Left can be roughly identified with Romanticism, Wagner, Liszt, Paganini, a rebellion against reason and rationality, in favor of idealism, and wishful thinking, projected onto the long ago, and the far away. 

 

In practical terms it lead, although not to the American Revolution, but in America can be seen as the hopeful ecstatic Dionysian drive behind the Civil War. 

 

As late as up until WW1 it lead from the French, to the Russian revolutions, and to women's rights to vote, and prohibition. Truly a sobering  Dionysianism it was in the event.

 

And more darkly, to ... but I won't mention that.

 

The cure for Romanticism was impressionism. "That" was German, and led to two world wars, This, was French, and led to a floating detachment, an almost "out of body" experience.

 

The New Left.

 

The New left can be identified roughly  with Rock and Roll, particularly with its more "funk" manifestations.  Even Paul McCartney, in his bass playing, became more and more black in his mastery after the crack-up of the Beatles.

 

It has been suggested already that the cure for the nihilisms of Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll was sitar music. Or sarod. Even vichitra veena.

 

The Woo Left.

 

The Woo Left flew in under the radar, under cover of darkness, while the new left was sleeping, dreaming, not paying attention. It was a billion winged seeds, and spores, and coughs of infection. A rough and ready identification could be made distantly, yet growing relentless, and more obvious, with punk. A kind of empty vessel, a violin case for violence. 

 

 Do these two people not look like punks?

 

 

 

 

 

Two things notable here, a) all animals have two sexes, and plants, in fact eukaryotes in general, multicellular life, b) while "Marxism" was hardly scientific (see Lysenkoism), well, there's also Prigogine's theories in chemistry. Noticeable is what's here been underlined. Wondering now why it was underlined ... oh, because I had clicked on it.

 

 The Woo Left could best be summed up under the Seinfeldian slogan of "do the opposite," nothing's what it seems, "think the opposite," always second guess yourself. "Be the opposite," the essence of what it is to truly be "your true authentic self" is to "exist" as the opposite of your true authentic self (without the quotes).

 

 

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