i really want to understand what it is about being on the political and cultural left that makes it so there is a need to impart and project ideological views onto everything one is part of. i keep coming back to o’sullivan’s first law, “all organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing”, and how this trait that i want to understand plays a part in it. i feel like there is something that makes it so having such views has an almost viral nature to it, that it propagates mostly by infecting and spreading itself within organizations until it consumes it entirely.