The Southpaw Guide to Thinking about Politics:
- As a martial artist, as a principled person, as an honorable person, how should I think about politics?
- How politics should be downstream from your principles and not the other way around
- Your moral compass should not be skewed by politics, it should be your moral compass informing your politics
- The price of never thinking about your principles or forming them before indoctrination
- How principles aren't always ethical
- Utilitarian ethics vs. nonconsequentialist ethics vs. virtue ethics
- The Right vs. the Portlandia Right (Internet New Right)
- The Leftists vs. Democrats
- How we sometimes pick identities that cut off our nose to spite the face (following people who want "Mad Max" when YOU want a utopia)
- How outliers fall into tribes
- How your individuality should not conform to your tribe—if you want a tribe, you should find one that agrees with your principles as an individual
- How to be flexible with your politics but inflexible with your principles
- Retcon (retroactive continuity) to avoid hypocrisy and to form unholy alliances
- How to prioritize as a single-issue voter
- The philosophy of Stone Cold Steve Austin
