The Truish and Actual Political Spectrum
The Truish and Actual Political Spectrum
The Truish and Actual Political Spectrum. I’m the author, happy to debate, or answer questions or respond to substantive criticism.
Re: The Truish and Actual Political Spectrum
brute finds it not a vast improvement over the popular left/right spectrum. it doesn't solve anything because it's still one-dimensional. for example, Ayn Rand is almost all the way to the right on the "social equality and individual freedom" scale. in fact, Ayn Rand is 100% for individual freedom and 0% for social equality - meaning she breaks this scale. or should she be in the middle? in any case, collapsing individual freedom and social equality removes most distinctions that brute actually cares about - the libertarian axis.
the 2 dimensional libertarian spectrum of personal/economic freedom seems to distinguish better:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertari ... normal.png
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wikipedia has a few interesting charts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political ... _chart.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political ... _chart.jpg
the 2 dimensional libertarian spectrum of personal/economic freedom seems to distinguish better:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertari ... normal.png
edit:
wikipedia has a few interesting charts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political ... _chart.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political ... _chart.jpg
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Re: The Truish and Actual Political Spectrum
Projecting [political] nuances into 1D is bound to be ... misleading... as people try to re-extract the nuances based on a line.
I'm not convinced that linear algebra is the way to understand politics in the first place. I prefer stock and flow charts.
I'm not convinced that linear algebra is the way to understand politics in the first place. I prefer stock and flow charts.
Re: The Truish and Actual Political Spectrum
Better off with the ever-popular quadrant (two-dimensional) model that has made the rounds in the past. A three or more dimensional model would be even more interesting.
Re: The Truish and Actual Political Spectrum
Hi all! Thanks for the comments. All models of reality of reality are reductive — they’re models, after all, not reality. I agree a flow-chart, a three-point model and a glowing, revolving hologram would all reveal more, but my point was a) to correct (or comment on) the spectrum we use and b) to insert some psychological reality into it — in this case conscience, which, I’d say, can be plotted on a line. Either you have conscience or you don’t, either you believe it is more intelligent than your rational mind, or you don’t, either you listen to it a lot or you don’t listen to it very much — and so on.
Of course depends what you mean by ‘conscience’. The sense I use the word here is pretty stark, but no time right now to go into detail.
Of course depends what you mean by ‘conscience’. The sense I use the word here is pretty stark, but no time right now to go into detail.