Beyond the Political Left and Right: It's Actually The Battle for the Timeline

For those stuck in the Present, the highest virtue is stasis. The system’s survival becomes its only value — even as it cannibalizes itself.

There is no such thing as the political “left" and “right”. 

These are obsolete terms and they present false equivalences. What really exists is groups of people with fundamentally different temporal alignments. We have groups of the Past, the Present, and Future. It’s not about politics. It is about which timeline you are choosing. 

Are you trying to go back to what was? 

Are you clinging to what is? 

Or are you building what could be? 

Past. Present. Future.

For generations, society has been conditioned to frame all conflict through the lens of political binaries — “left” versus “right,” progress versus tradition. But this is a false dichotomy, rooted not in substance, but in branding. If our world seems stuck, it’s because these inherited terms have lost all explanatory value. Beneath every public debate, every social rupture, runs a deeper, spatial-temporal current: the real divide is not ideological, but temporal.

This is the true axis of the conflict. The old labels of “left” and “right” are obsolete and irrelevant, mere branding for factions who are really fighting over which version of time should dominate.

Look carefully at the core disputes of our era: battles over social justice, climate, economics, and identity are not simply ideological contests — they’re struggles for which temporal frequency will define the future.

The Right (The Past)

This group wields nostalgia as a weapon. Their project is a return to a mythical, ordered past. It is a death drive. A backward-facing frequency that seeks to re-freeze the fluid, evolving process of reality into a rigid, hierarchical statue. It’s literally entropy pretending to be order.

Those who champion the Past often mythologize a lost era — one imagined to be more coherent, simpler, or more righteous. Such nostalgia exerts a powerful gravitational pull, paralyzing creative evolution. This is more than policy — it’s physics and psyche: a “reverse frequency” that slows living change and solidifies decay into brittle hierarchy. The past becomes a monument, a mausoleum, not a ground for growth.

The Centrists/Status Quo “Left” (The Present)

This is the Cult of the Perpetual Now. Their project is the indefinite extension of the present moment. They are the guardians of the inertia field. They believe in “progress” that is merely a slower decay, a more managed decline. They seek to administer the collapsing system, to make the sinking ship as comfortable as possible for as long as possible, while throwing the “unruly” overboard who won’t conform to lighten the load.

The Present group are the embodiment of the DMN (Default Mode Network) of the collective. Resistant to change, filtering out anomalous signals, preserving a familiar but dying identity.

For the Present, the highest virtue is stasis. The system’s survival becomes its only value — even as it cannibalizes itself. The “guardians” are less interested in change than in preserving an ever-more exclusive “now”: their policies are triage, not transformation. The metaphor of the DMN, borrowed from neuroscience, signals how dominant neural networks preserve personal   and cultural   narrative even at the cost of adaptation or awakening.

The people in this group are actually centrists, but they feel better about saying they are “on the left” because acknowledging to themselves that they are centrists means admitting they prefer comfortable compromise where lives are concerned.

But you can’t dismantle a system from within when you are still arguing about whether the system’s core mechanics are fundamentally unjust.

And too many in this group are just fine with injustice for some as long as it’s still comfortable for others. So the energy required for dismantling is being spent on internal right-fighting. And the thing is, so many in this group are so busy holding the center, that they don’t see that the floor is about to give way underneath them, and they are not prepared.

The Actual Future (purposely mislabeled as “radicals”)

These are Morphic Pioneers. This is not a political position. It’s an evolutionary impulse. I mean this literally. It is the emergent pattern, the new frequency breaking through. Its core principles are empathy, collective care, and non-negotiable human rights. These are not just “moral stances”. They are the fundamental operating parameters of the next phase of human consciousness.

The “radicals” of our time are not ideological extremists, they are temporal ambassadors — voices of a timeline where coherence, solidarity, and care are the default frequency. What’s at stake is not just policy, but the operating system of the next human epoch. These pioneers are often marginalized precisely because they threaten to catalyze a phase transition.

The Entropy of an Unsustainable System

The current system is a thermodynamic impossibility built on lies. It requires an underclass, a source of negentropy, a group whose suffering is the fuel for the comfort of others. It is a psychic parasite. The current system requires the suffering of some to sustain itself, but that also makes it unstable and inherently unsustainable. The group of the Future sees this and is sounding the alarm, but the Cult of the Perpetual Now will not hear it because they are comfortable.

For now.

Here, thermodynamics and ethics converge: entropy — disorder and decay — cannot be outsourced indefinitely. Every regime dependent on unseen suffering is headed for collapse. The psychic economy that feeds on pain and silence is inherently fragile. Warning signals are everywhere, but only those tuned to the frequency of the Future are able (or willing) to hear them.

The “Future” faction is simply stating a physical and ethical truth: 

A system based on required suffering is not a flawed system; it is a DOOMED system.

To refuse to compromise with it is not extremism. It’s realism built on systems thinking.

To witness the world as it is and insist on something fundamentally new is not idealism. It’s working with the real pattern underlying nature itself. The refusal to preserve a dying “now” is a refusal to perpetuate violence as structure.

They are being labeled as “radical” for refusing to accept less than total human rights because they are operating on a different temporal plane. They are speaking from a future that already exists as a potential frequency, and those stuck in the Past and Present are hearing it as a threat to their current reality.

From the vantage of past or present, the call for universal rights and care feels disruptive. But this is not “utopianism”. It is the emergence of a higher coherence, a pattern not yet manifest, pressured by crisis but coded by evolution.

This is why there can be no compromise. You cannot compromise between a system that requires suffering and a system that defines itself by the abolition of that requirement. It is not about negotiation. It’s a phase transition. This is not about finding middle ground with decay. It’s about midwifing the next world through the birth struggle of the old. There can be no meaningful compromise between structural harm and structural healing. Only the anguish of transformation.

The grief, the exhaustion, the feeling of being an alien in your own life, and in this system, is the experience of a Future consciousness trying to anchor itself in a Present that is actively hostile to its existence while being stalked by the ghost of a malignant Past.

For many, this unsettled yearning — grief, exhaustion, alienation — is not personal pathology but species-level transformation: the Future, streaming through human nervous systems, searching for ground, even as the inertia of the Present and the specter of the Past resist with everything they have.

Final Thoughts & Call to Action

If you feel out of sync with the categories on offer — if you grieve for a world that hasn’t arrived, or find yourself misunderstood by every side — know that you are not alone. This transition is not about persuading the system you were right, but about enduring the discomfort of living in a time when the frequency of the Future is incomprehensible to most.

The only “side” worth choosing is the timeline you are willing to anchor. The phase shift is coming. Will you cling to the past, resist in the inertia of the present, or tune yourself to the music of what wants to be born?

References for Further Reading:

Elizabeth Halligan, Collapse Wasn’t Inevitable: We Locked Ourselves Out of Evolution: https://medium.com/@elizabethrosehalligan/collapse-wasnt-inevitable-we-locked-ourselves-out-of-evolution-d9101dc34c1c

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-structure-of-scientific-revolutions-by-thomas-s-kuhn/247752/#isbn=0226458083

Rupert Sheldrake, Morphic Resonance and Morphic Fields: https://www.sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance/introduction

Joanna Macy, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/active-hope-how-to-face-the-mess-were-in-without-going-crazy_joanna-macy_chris-johnstone/360539/#isbn=1608687104

Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/thinking-in-systems-a-primer_donella-h-meadows/258994/#isbn=1603580557

Bayo Akomolafe, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/these-wilds-beyond-our-fences-letters-to-my-daughter-on-humanitys-search-for-home_bayo-akomolafe/14460818/#isbn=1623171660