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Will I ever stop having cringe takes? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 days 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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[–] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

depends how old you are, but nobody is ever 100% correct, and anyone who thinks they can't be wrong is a delusion and egotistical shitbag.

Once youre a marxist though, the % of correctness is pretty solid, as long as you have concrete values.

I was against the iraq/afghan wars in middle school when they started, but was still mostly lib until 2012 when i discovered bernie and realized Obama and Dems didnt accomplish anything. Bernie getting fucked out of the presidency turned me into a marxist. I also didnt really use reddit until like 2016 and that also helped alot. I hadn't really spent time on political message boards, mostly gaming and nerd forums. So luckily ive always been anti war, but i wasnt always anti capitalist. So maybe 3 times in my life would i have thought "damn i cant believe i thought that a year ago." I was at least a lib/Dem from the start, i know someone who was the republican kid in high school and he's a marxist now.

But do i really think about how i was wrong at some point? It should be acknowledged but you can't overthink it.

Boomer take: fuck i hate the word cringe.