When the left gets out of its own way

I am not endorsing any of the thought experiments I'm about to describe. Running dozens of thought experiments is how you actually figure out the future while in contrast knee-jerk reactions about each and every little thought experiment is how you behave like a leftist and prevent yourself from understanding reality.

Thought experiments create understanding while knee-jerk reactions destroy it. Humans understand most things through stories and thought experiments are condensed stories about material forces, so let us run through some thought experiments. 

Imagine that at some point in the future humans are replaced by constructed AI beings. Or imagine that the line between machine and organic disappears and human nature itself becomes subject to reprogramming. Whatever the case the leaders of the world come on TV and decide to update the code of humanity. They stand there and turn a key unlocking the proverbial nuclear codes, they push a button, and the software code of humanity is instantly updated globally. Seconds later all racism and violence on the planet has disappeared. 

Of course humans will get it wrong. Leftists will get it even wronger, when rewrite their own history to forget. Such a power over nature will lead to horrors beyond comprehension. Natural selection does not go away in such a scenario; it simply moves to the point of ideology, and now having the right ideology is survival. Those who are excessively idealist update their code in self-destructive ways causing their own extinction and under such a scenario the greatest threat to humanity is exactly a global software update forced on everyone at the same time. The great danger with recreational drugs is that they can destroy your brain in such a way that you lose the self-control to stop using the drug, at which point you are locked into a cycle of ever-increasing self-destruction since you lack the will to stop destroying yourself. The same basic potential cycle exists if you push the wrong update of your own code. It is incredibly important to get it right and there has to be some sort of automatic reversion process where the old sense of self gets to analyze the new of self and force a reversion to old code. When one pushes a code uptake on one's own psyche one should probably have a point in the future at which that update is suspended automatically for a set period of time, oh say a month, giving the old sense of self a chance to analyze the new self objectively. Even more dangerous is the possibility that several code updates go successfully but lead one down a blind alley to death since the compounding iteration of the process is maladaptive. The leftist is that person arrogant enough to force a universal code update on everyone.

If you do drugs you should probably quit all drugs for a month each year to see if you actually need them and to ensure you have the power to stop. Periodic detox bro.

Paradoxically the modern left is in its own way and by opposing eugenics and AI it slows down the process of disaster that it would inevitably create for itself in the future. Once human nature can be modified the screeching howling psychosis of monkeys will demand that the nature of white people themselves be updated to abolish racism but not to abolish it among others. This is the sort of derangement leftists would create since the characteristic of their personalities does not allow for the humility that would be required to (a) considered trade-offs, (b), consider that racism might have survival value (c), question their own priors, and (d) even understand what their own implicit beliefs are, and since all of these questions might collapse their worldview the noise must be shut out and censored. You never want to be the first one to abandon racism in a racist world—that's like being the first one to lower your gun when you know for sure that your enemies thirst to kill you deep down inside. I've said it before and I will see it again, one's level of racism should be calibrated to the circumstances necessary for one survival. Translation: one should be exactly as racist as they need to be and no more, since more inevitably provokes more conflict.

Code updates are tricky things, whether cultural or genetic or political. The conflict between humans over the political never provides the room necessary for beta testing multiple different versions of a process in different locations with different populations. Indeed, experimenting on some people is a crime against humanity, but apparently not a crime when you experiment on everyone (see COVID). Under this regime, experimenting on people never passes ethics review unless you're experimenting on white people or the whole society. 

The arrogant think that if they don't consider the trade-offs they don't exist. They think idealism is great because idealism gives you the great delusion that there are no trade-offs. Idealism is actually quite evil and the world is not oppressed by capitalism, or the rich, or this or that, but by the idealist and the knee-jerk reactionist—who cannot shut the fuck up—and think through the countless iterative thought experiments that need to happen. Reality is much harder to know than you realize.