Thanks for explaining that so clearly! It explains a lot of stuff I have never understood about left wing peeps.

Happy to help!

It might (and I stress the might) help if you took some time to understand your own culture in terms of cultural assumptions

Oh absolutely. For example, I listened to a really good podcast series on European history which did a great job of exploring the way these attitudes have shaped us.

I was wondering where your left-wing upbringing states that the internal sense of right came from if it was believed to be in opposition to the beliefs of the culture around you

God. My parents see their ethics as coming from God and the Bible (including certain anti-sex/homophobic beliefs :/). Which also causes problems because most christians (or even anglicans) don't see things the same way as them, but their explanation is that everyone else is doing it wrong.

This explanation hasn't done me much good since I became an atheist, which is about the time I started getting very conflicted about the whole thing..

I'm not sure what my left wing atheist grandparents think, but they tend not not get very meta (and are pretty senile now)