It's All Kayfabe: Or, How I Learned to Love the Centre Left

Recently AA put out a series of videos where he declared himself to be against right-wing populism in order to claim the "realist" or sensible centre-left position in politics. Let's talk about this.

Ok, truth be told, I don’t love the centre-left. But much of modern politics is kayfabe and the modern managerial system makes all politics into centre-left politics. This much is true. A couple of weeks ago,

Neema Parvini

, also known as Academic Agent, or AA, put out an eight part YouTube series entitled: Neema Parvini vs. Right-Wing Ideas. The series came to my attention when, because of my extensive reflection on the writings of Jacques Ellul, a number of mutuals began sending me links to the fourth video in the series discussing the right’s supposed technophobia. At the conclusion of each of these videos, Parvini invites feedback and discussion about the problems he has raised with the right-wing as it exists both online and in the real world. Having gone through the videos twice now, I think that his assessment is more or less correct, even if I disagree with his decision regarding the question of “what next?” I don’t believe that embracing the centre-left is the correct path, even if in practice this is what ends up happening to most so-called “right wing” politicians, activists and lobbyists involved in the political and managerial system.