Political compass for the21st century

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(03-24-2020, 04:29 PM)David Horn Wrote: True enough, but you actually made my point.  An array of orthogonal vectors can be as large and varied as desired.  Ignoring some (if that's your preference) has no impact on the others, though others may find some value you are free to find irrelevant.

In physics, there is an argument for an 11-dimensional universe, though we only live in four of them.  Havin no need of the other 7 doesn't invalidate their existence.

In personality typology, there are orthogonal systems like Big 5 and MBTI, and there is the Enneagram which features 9 personality prototypes. My chart was meant to be like the Enneagram.

pbrower2a Wrote:Now for someone introducing the world to an extreme manifestation of personal indulgence, one of the sexual libertine in a plush setting. OK, he is better known for exposing (as literally as possible) the idealized female body -- familiar but with attractive form. For male heterosexuals most women of a certain age look better without clothes than with them or with clothes that simply frame the (to euphemize) the strategic parts of her anatomy so long as she does not have a severe fault of image such as obesity, scars, or ill-chosen tattoos. He is certainly not an egalitarian; he made a commodity out of personal appearance and advocated 'luxury' as an ideal. Obviously an antithesis to theocratic ideals and not at all a nationalist, he is obviously nowhere near the blue and brown sectors. He is non-violent, so he is not at one extreme or another. Sure, his sexuality is elitist and exploitative; few people ever get the means in which to live as he advocates, but it does attract men (and post-pubescent boys) as a fantasy more sophisticated than the "dirty old man" pornography.

Let me introduce Hugh Hefner, the man who introduced Humanity to sexuality without guilt. It might be ironic, but some feminists might be close to Hefner on this chart.

So, where do you put Hefner? Boundary between Yellow and Purple sounds right. Close to Rajneesh, though he probably didn't believe in any supernatural crap.

Quote:I would put Greta Thunberg much closer to the center than to the outer fringe, although definitely in the purple zone. She is not a nationalist, traditionalist; she seems mute on the capitalist-socialist divide. I can't imagine her advocating apocalyptic war on or mass murder behalf of a cause. An extremist in her direction would be Ted "Unabom" Kaczynski (who did leave his "Unabom" Manifesto as a guide to his beliefs).

His account of Leftist psychology makes it impossible to put him in the same zone as Leftists. He despised feminism, gay rights, recreational drug use - all the Inclusivist stuff from the last 2T. He seems more of a libertarian, though he venerates Nature rather than the Market, he ascribes to it a ruggedness that Ayn Rand would love. Both are Social Darwinist anarchists, as opposed to the fluffy bunny Inclusivist "anarchists" like Chomsky.