On Friday, November 16, 2018 at 6:28:19 AM UTC, RichA wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46219656

When people grow older and become more confident, the notions of left and right social politics start to fade, at least for those who don't rely on social groups, political affiliations, social status and so on. The Brits have created a situation based on so much wishful thinking that presently there is only chaos where extremists have a lot in common which drowns out more balanced views.

All societies go through these situations now and again but are resolved when the pseudo-intellectual convictions that escape from the academic realm into the the social/political realm are put back in their box. The march of folly is well known but few have the courage to deal with the excesses of academic convictions projected into a political format -

” A lopsided education has helped to encourage that illusion. Man must realize that a fundamental law of necessity reigns throughout the whole realm of Nature and that his existence is subject to the law of eternal struggle and strife. He will then feel that there cannot be a separate law for mankind in a world in which planets and suns follow their orbits, where moons and planets trace their destined paths, where the strong are always the masters of the weak and where those subject to such laws must obey them or be destroyed.” Hitler