Humanity’s favorite hobby is taking something crude, outdated, and barely descriptive, then worshipping it like revealed truth. The left–right political spectrum is one of the best examples. It began as literal seating geography during the French Revolution, when supporters of the king’s veto sat to the presiding officer’s right and opponents sat to the left. That was in 1789. The French Revolution ran from 1789 to 1799. It is now 2026, and society is still acting as though a room arrangement...