Left vs Right... truly different?

It seems that the world of values and ideas, concepts... is less vulnerable to change than the world of physical things. This could be seen as a very gross and generic statement, because it may be argued that ideas precede the physical world, and many ideas need to be created amd modified before they are transformed into something "real". For instance... transportation. The idea of transportation, can be put into reality simply, like walking. Then above animals. Then above carriages. Then on motorised vehicles, before on 2 rails, then on any path. Also on water, swimming or sailing. Then flying in vehicles. Then, maybe, between planets... and why not, transportation in time.
Ok... but overall, there will be more changes in the effective form than in the concept. We see many makes of cars, many of them look different and within a definite timeframe, like 50 years... the changes are very notorious each year... but the essential concept of the transportation by car has not changed.

Transportation was a simple example. But... what about social organisation? What about power management? I would say that the idea should be reflected in the reality through a certain form of government... with certain rules... States, economy organisation...etc... but here I must say I am disappointed at the speed the changes take place.

We live in democracies, true, more or less effective, more or less expensive. But... conceptually, we still, at least in Spain, thing and assess in terms of right and left. "Conservative" and "Progressist". Recently I read an interesting article where it differentiated how the different parties in the different countries have evolved slightly differently, and some minor groups have been incorporated to one or other side... slightly modifying some of its basics. Like, for instance, the liberals (apparently inexistant in Spain), or the nationalists. For a while religion also had an impact, and I guess it still has... even though the effective impact in terms of power management is limited.
Then we have the usual topics that seem to split a society in 2: abortion, social expenditure, public vs private ownership, individual protection vs public interest, international affairs...

It´s sometimes difficult to separate the Estate as an entity, from the politicians that "control" it for a while. A policy may be defined by a certain government, but remain in place for years, or decades... and hence, somewhere becoming part of the policy of the State. This is fine. It may be even be better to dissociate the policy from its origin (the ideological view that defined it)... and try to stick to its impact in the society. Because, in the end, do the citizens really care about whether a certain government makes a right or left policy? How much does the budget of Education, Health, Military, Social, Infrastructures, Foreign Affairs... really change depending on the colour of the government? Maybe a 5% swing is enough to completely change the way the policy is enacted. After all, the money is just the tool to put in place that policy. What matters, or so they say, is the idea, the laws and policies.

I am personally liberal, and I do not hide that I prefer to think about each topic, one by one... than affiliating my decisions to the ideological book of any given party. When we give out our right to think and decide by ourselves... we give away an important asset.

My point here is that I think it´s despisable that we are still so much influenced by ideas of the XIX century (left vs right, labour vs capital, rich vs poor...). In Spain, the conservative party was "refounded" in the late 80´s (from AP it moved to PP... big change...). The socialist party was founded... ups!!... in 1879. And the Nationalist parties in the late Franco years or just after its death. But, essentially, no changes in the composition of the power structure. Still in a Monarchy. Still little REAL debate between people that have data and ideas about the topics at stake. Still very poor journalists... and worse... every year getting worse. More tv´s and newspapers... and less readers and quality programs. Still the most effective way to earn votes is to shout old claims on either sense...

My point here is that so long we keep thinking with the same frameset we will be reaching the same conclusions. In a world where the old concept of capitalist setting up a company and making money out of exploiting and organising the work of others should have been long overcome... we should think different. Maybe we would find that forgetting old clashes and redefining the approaches to problems would help us move forward.

This could also apply to the concept of Nation... am I from Barcelona? a Catalan? A Spaniard? European? or citizen of the world? Maybe we could move some power up... and approach the problems in the world from a more global perspective, but not only as agreement of countries, but as decisions from top-down, imposing, if necessary, some decisiones into some few for the benefit of all.
I know... it´s acceptable only depending on the power of those affected... and the history is full of abuses... but we can only reach new frontiers with a new approach... and even Estates cannot confront certain troubles by themselves.