The mistakes of the right are usually to apply traditional ways of thinking without really understanding them

The mistakes of the left are usually to dismiss traditional ways of thinking without even trying to understand them.

Example of the first category: the invasion of Iraq.

Traditionally, leaders of strong nations have invaded weaker nations. The USA wanted to invade Iraq for a variety of reasons but none of the stated justifications made much sense.

There's an instinct to do it though.

But because modernity has very high standards against violence and oppression, the result of the Iraq invasion wasn't a new province of America. It was a chaotic and violent version of Iraq.

The Bush era neocons were a sort of weird halfway house and it just didn't work.

Many mistakes on the right look like this to me; following instincts that used to be functional but that misfire in the modern world.

Christian Religion seems to be another one that is fundamentally a sound instinct (make a community via beliefs) but doesn't really work in the modern world (the beliefs and restrictions suck too much).

But then you have to look at all the insanity coming out of the left and centre.

We have basically decided to strip life of all the traditions and rituals and replace them with a new set of religious beliefs (hello, social justice!) plus consumerism.

Consumerism is bad because it elevates companies and their marketing departments to the status of priests or perhaps even deities, but these are fundamentally amoral gods that see people as a mere means.

The modern Western pantheon looks like this:

These gods are fundamentally amoral and want you to be fat, jealous, lonely, angry and always clicking on their favorite buttons. They want you to put all your life force into some cubicle job + consumption.

There isn't a goddess of fertility in our pantheon because our formal systems for allocating credit don't have an account for the creation of new people.

There are more gods of anti-fertility than fertility.

All the things that are really important in life are hard to monetize, or hard to monetize in a value-aligned way.

{Fertility, friendship, passion, love, happiness, knowledge, scientific progress, personal growth}

And the left is worse. The left is now basically a religion that worships dysfunction, decay and irrationality.

They're worshiping a fat ugly woman in her underwear like she's a goddess.

What's she the goddess of? Answers in the replies please.