09-23-2018, 01:13 PM
Perhaps a sphere, regular octahedron, or cube would work better by allowing three axes instead of two. The most obvious axes would be those of the Nolan Chart, the left-right axis for economics and the top-down axis for libertarianism versus authoritarianism. (I am tempted to believe that the libertarian dream ends up as a feudal nightmare, which is a different story, with the manorial lord becoming extremely powerful in his demesne over people who become subject to the liberties of the manorial lord). Would the third axis be conformity versus self-expression? Or something else?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.