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Will I ever stop having cringe takes? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by dil@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Over the past few years, I've been sliding left ideologically, and as I move further left my old positions seem cringy.

That's expected when you change your worldview and realize you were parroting (e.g.) CIA propaganda, but it's left me feeling a bit ungrounded. I'm worried that in another year I'll look back and think my current views are dumb. Tbh, they almost certainly are.

Does this go away eventually? Or are y'all constantly refining your understanding, so you always dislike your views from a year ago?

Also:

If folks leave, where do they go from here? Are they just picking their preferred flavor of communism/anarchism? Are there other categories of leftism that they're heading to? I'm sure some backslide, but I mean heading somewhere new - like I didn't know people actually liked DPRK until I heard about "tankies." I saw a group that doesn't believe in objective reality?

I'm not really expecting to look at anything new and not be a Marxist, but I'd like to know what's out there to be sure.

I just wanna pick one goddamn worldview, never change it, and still be right about everything all the time. Is that so much to ask?

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You don't always have to have a 'take' on everything.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Took me an embarrassingly long time to realize this. You don't have to know everything and have the absolute correctest opinion on everything. In fact you should be very skeptical of people that claim that do.

[–] free_casc@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

What helps is focusing on my local community. You can apply theory freely to making the world a better place right outside your front door.

It is wise to be aware of complex global issues, but I think that taking part of a discussion on the (global) internet is going to feel ungrounding because of the diversity of participants and the increased complexity. A more local or regional focus offers a "big fish in a small pond" effect and can feel very grounding, since legacy media that people around you consume is going to have a national or global focus.