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  • Subtle cosmic horror. The implications.

    For example, image diving into a deep ocean, and it gets darker, until there is no light left - and a few lights dint somewhere, and you dive on.

    It could be that the story mentions the lights very casually, as nothing relevant, merely for detail; but that you sense hints of the water vibrating, knowing not whence it comes.

    What is it? The reader is left to interpret. Is it a large sea monster? Merely a few bioluminescent worms swimming by? Are you making up things?

    Nobody knows; and that fear is the unknown.









  • That’s called social democracy. At its core, being left means being anticapitalist. Social democracy itself does not reject capitalism, though does regulate it strongly (and rightly so).

    One reason people may favour social democracy is that it allows for a market economy, but another for opposition is that this still enables bribery through lobbies, as in all forms of capitalism.

    And so I myself (being an ancom) wouldn’t count social democracy as quite being left. But it’s a good introduction for liberals and centrists to eventually get them on board with more thorough democratic socialism.