I was thinking about the origins of left and right wings, and reading about Greek phalanxes and the positioning of men within them I came to the conclusion that the terminology originates from the Greek phalanx.
With the way Greek shields were designed everyone, at least those in the front, had to rely on the shield of the man to the right in order to get "full" coverage. This led to a general tendency of the phalanx to drift to the right. In order to prevent battle plans from getting ruined you had to get people on the right WING of the phalanx who were brave enough not to push to their right and strong enough to hold back the men to their left. So they stacked the strongest/most prestigious people on the right wing and those who were weakest/least willing to stay the course on the left wing. Of course the king would generally be placed on the right wing.
This I think encompasses everything about the right/left dichotomy. The right serves the interests of those who have prestige/authority/trust, and the left serves the interests of people who don't. It also makes the left look really bad.
It also clarifies why both right and left might be said to serve the same master, as both right and left wings hold the phalanx to be supreme. Both the left and right wing would be falangists (fascists) regardless of which group they serve, both hold the collective to be the central metaphor.
Gavin Anderson
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Carson Foster
It comes from France.
Benjamin Sullivan
The terms "left wing" and "right wing" are derived from the seating positions of the first French national assemblies, were girondists and royalists would sit on the right of the room, and jacobins and their ilk on the left. This is just "droite" and "gauche" in French, which became the English terms we know today. If your theory was correct, we would know of the political use of the terms "right wing" and "left wing" prior to the French Revolution, which I don't imagine there are.
William Brown
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Eli Anderson
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Angel Roberts
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Blake Moore
It's called the Third Position. Not right wing.
Ian Brooks
Centrism in this formalism would represent a desire for "unity." They would hold the interests of the "system" above the interests of any component.
Aiden Butler
Congratulations, but a thread didn't need to die for this.
Soros' "Purple Revolution refers to Phoneticians' purple colors
Owen Garcia
Makes sense. The merchants are at their core peddlers of frivolous luxuries, their reputation as schemers comes on top of that.
Carson White
It's better to be at the right of the Christ than the left, same for the King, so the 'conservatives' were instinctively drawn to the right side of the room and the 'liberals' to the left of it, even when the king was down. It's litteraly neo-christian feng-shui now.
Matthew Myers
Do you also believe the King of England started his own church to get a divorce? You're missing out the obvious symbolism behind things… OP is probably a slide, this is definitelly out of any fascist doctrine…
Jonathan Martin
Phoenicia were the Jews' (much) more successful cousins anyway they were just not as enduring as a culture (in being parasites)
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Jaxson Rodriguez
It actually makes sense though. In your scenario, the right wing is still closest to the king just like in the phalanx. It's probably a principle that has existed since the beginning of time tbh
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