Actually I’d say much of the article is bunk.
I know plenty of lefties from college and they are not motivated in the way this guy describes. Maybe there are example to which his description is apt, but I really doubt it is the majority or a really significant portion.
Most of the lefties I know are convinced that their methods do work, and that corporations are evil. The main factors which convince the Left to do what they do are:
A) the conviction that we are in a zero sum game
B) the idea that marketing is essentially mind control, and that because of this government must restrain corporations or they will run roughshod over people.
These are the things I consistently see when I argue with lefties as the fundamentals of why they fail to understand the world for what it really is.
Sure, there are likely some puffins who are what this guy describes, but this is just the preening Hollywood left rather than the actual thinking left of Academia or the bar.
...the thinking left....oxymoron anyone?...or the bar...put this out there, and have sold their souls to the ideas (that seem palatable) for purely financial reasons.
They cynically butter their bread with reality denying obfuscations and explanations.
They’ve built careers and money on their falsehoods.
Bottom line, despite their so-called “thinking”, they still deny reality.
Ask yourself...what is the behavior you usually observe in those who deny reality?
The greater the denial, the greater the compensatory behavior.
Their hypocrisy is the tribute the lies of their lives pay to virtue.