The Family and the State: A Psychology of Extremism

The debate between Left and Right is often mistakenly seen as a struggle over budgets or foreign policy.

However a deeper look reveals that at the core of political extremism lies a much more primal urge: the hunger for ultimate belonging and the struggle with the biological foundations of humanity. Even before we know if the economic or foreign policies of a regime will succeed we are already aware of the real world consequences for the family unit due to the cultural doctrine they carry.

The extreme Left for example maintains a love hate relationship with the mother figure.

On one hand it seeks to abolish the traditional family and transform the womb into a collective resource in the name of class equality.

By removing the father from the picture, the Left leaves the mother and child entirely dependent on the state which functions as a proxy father.

This is an attempt to violate the traditional womb and create total dependency on government bureaucracy.

In contrast the extreme Right operates through a fantasy of the absolute simp: the male who seeks to bring the entire world to the feet of the woman in a desperate hope for absolute loyalty.

For him the womb is the shelter and the source of racial purity.

The aspiration is to return to a fetal state of total protection within a tribal collective.

Both poles share an obsession with the idea of blood and view it as the essence of the human story.

Thus, they create tools to maintain its perceived sanctity through assignment quotas or social engineering.

The design of the family unit is what will ultimately determine the fate of the regime.

It is the element that exposes the true motives of an ideology.

Policies that dismantle the family unit or turn it into a tool of the nation are destined to lead to a backward and tyrannical state.

In this context economic liberalism offers an interesting solution.

Although it opens the family unit to external influences and changes when it is integrated with a conservative ethos it represents the most positive formula.

This combination balances the human need for excitement for development and for economic freedom while maintaining the stable core of the family.

Conservative liberalism does not seek to violate the womb or return to it. Instead it seeks to protect it as an independent unit.

This is the final barrier against the Order of Crime from previous centuries which seeks to replace individual excellence and free choice with quotas and identity bureaucracy. Protecting the family unit from social engineering is the protection of the future of the entire West.