Lotus Eaters has a video ( LINK ) discussing "What is Wrong with the Left?", and they led with a study I hadn't seen before
Archive link: https://archive.is/yygF3
From the article:
“I was very surprised that the level of liberal bias against conservatives was nearly three times greater than was conservative bias toward liberals,” Ridge said. “This is directly the opposite of what ideological asymmetry would predict. I was also surprised that given this result, liberal participants claimed that conservatives were much more prejudiced than liberals, whereas conservatives did not attribute any more prejudice to liberals than to conservatives. This is contrary to much popular opinion about liberals and conservatives in popular media and in the empirical literature.”
I am not personally surprised by this, as I am aware of previous studies that show the left really doesn't know all that much about conservatives in general, and do a really bad job at generalizing conservative ideas. I think this stems from the way the left is able to totally insulate themselves in an information bubble due to the overall heavy leftward bias in all cultural institutions.
"Liberal" and "Conservative" are two entirely made up end points with about as much meaning as "Thumbs Up" and "Thumbs Down" on youtube. Which is precisely why they were created that way, operate the way they do, and why fake intellectual conversations form around them the way they do.
People are formed by their experiences in reality, and rarely is this fake dichotomy ever present, so nowhere is anyone actually a total "liberal" or "conservative." Unless they're yelling about something online for fake points or to manipulate people which is the only forum they'd have any real function in anyways.
These studies always seem like "tell me what I want to hear" tripe anyways.
the primordial linchpin choice is "serve God" or "reject God, and serve yourself"
everything else is downstream from that decision
there are actions/attitudes/decisions that appear to straddle the line from a distance but once you drill down you will see they are either on one side or the other
There's nothing primordial about that. You have to be taught about God first, people are not born with an innate sense of their creator, nor any knowledge of the stories surrounding any particular branch of religion.
You might just be describing "altruism" vs "hedonism" in different terms.
In any case.. people assemble all kinds of beliefs about themselves.. but when you put the screws to them, you find out just how many of them they're willing to abandon in a heartbeat.
The primordial line between the modern world is those who have been to this place and those who haven't.