I have always thought that lefties love the traditions of more primitive cultures because such traditions allow these folk marxists to indulge in conservatism by proxy. In that way they get to have their their cake and eat it too. After all, as Margaret Thatcher once said: “the facts of life are Conservative.” All of us recognise this deep down, in what Coward called our private lives. Even lefties know this. But somewhere they have an intellectual and emotional deficiency, a need for double-think, that means tat the can only experience reality at a remove.