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Chesterton’s fence: The idea that reforms should not be made to a system until the reasoning behind its current state is understood. Originally described by G. K. Chesterton in 1929.
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
Furthermore, under this line of thinking, one could extrapolate that a right-wing journey would gravitate toward no government (anarchy), while a left-wing journey would navigate toward total government. This possibility calls into question the integrity of the old left-right dichotomy, meaning that the old, circular, horseshoe theory or U-turn spectrum (pitting fascism and communism as polar opposites) is either broken, a complot of historical sabotage, or simply an invention of pure fallacy. Such bending is absurd, at best, or dangerous, at worst. Why? Because if totalitarianism is positioned on the circular ends of both left and right, then “the political spectrum teaches us that opposites are the same and the same are opposites.”[155] Such absurdity fogs the mind with uncertainty and confusion; reality becomes nearly impossible to identify or define. And without clarity, how can anyone determine what is true or false?
Killing History
L.K. Samuels
Ich habe bestimmte Regeln, nach denen ich lebe. Meine erste Regel: Ich glaube nichts, was mir die Regierung sagt. - George Carlin
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