Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Scholar identifies alarming trends among US men" video.
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@joonzville This is a section of a chapter of my latest book, its aimed at disaffected desperate men in America, who tend to be right-wing and conservative and not read books so its has sold terribly. Which I knew it would, but the suicide rates are so horrific I had to make an effort. The problem is, you cant address the fundamental problems and NOT sound like a "leftie". [it is specifically written in an unintellectual manner]
"HE’S NOT A LEFTIE - HE’S A VERY NAUGHTY BOY!
I'm very conscious that I might come across like a raging ‘leftie’ and that may put people off me and this book, deny them the help this book may offer them and politics is not my agenda here, so I want to address this issue head on.
If you are a hard-core right-wing Trump supporter, I don't care. You are a human being who wants the same as I do – a half decent life, the ability to feel safe and secure, be able to look after your family and provide for them, earn a decent living, save a bit of money, and not struggle every damn day of your life. You are no different to me, or to any person reading this book, it's what all humans want.
I don't believe in ‘left’ or ‘right’, these are labels put on people and ideas to ‘other’ and to ‘divide’. I'm not a ‘leftie’, I'm a person who has experienced a hell of a lot in life from extreme poverty and homelessness to literal millions £$€, and I’ve had the time to deeply reflect on it and this leads me to certain conclusions and insights that OTHER PEOPLE may have labelled as ‘left’.
And this is how academia gets labelled as ‘Leftist’.
In the same way it’s almost impossible to spend three years writing a book and not come up with something profound, it’s almost impossible to spend a life in academic study and thought and not arrive at a perspective that people have labelled ‘left wing’, unless financial interests induce you to lie about it.
The reason being, that the capitalist status quo wants one thing, the continuation of the status quo in all its inequitable and destructive murderous horror (we call this right wing) and everyone who has the time to think deeply enough to get past the propaganda, realises the same self-evident truths.
Believing that a system so obviously broken, as this one, needs replacing with a better, more equitable, more inclusive system, is NOT ‘left wing’:
it’s HUMANITARIAN!
I'm not ‘left wing’, academia is not ‘left win’, it’s just that given enough time and thought about the problems of society, everyone ends up coalescing around roughly the same ideas. These ideas are dangerous to the status quo so they are labelled, and demonised."
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