Political compass for the21st century

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(05-18-2020, 10:18 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Norway fits high in the socialist quadrant. What makes it successful is its blend of socialism and capitalism, a truly mixed economy where taxes actually provide what people need. An advanced model that Bernie Sanders recommends, although the USA is too backward ever to copy it. Norway indeed is a socialist society that is an advance on the laissez faire, robber baron capitalism that prevailed before socialism came along to challenge and reform it.

Norway scored 9 in ease of doing business ranking:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_do...ex#Ranking

Hardly a socialist state!

Quote:You've probably seen my Planetary Dynamics page by now, but if not it's well worth checking out.
http://philosopherswheel.com/planetarydynamics.html

This is beyond the scope of this thread, but if Pluto is a planet then Eris and Sedna are planets too.


I like the basic idea of spiral dynamics, but there is no guarantee the new era will be higher or more evolved than the previous one. After the Fall of Rome, Western Civilization retreated and progress resumed only in 12th century or so. The Renaissance looked back at Roman achievements, and rejected the Middle Ages. So can a future era look down at our saeculum.

Spiral dynamics and my system don't need to contradict each other, we can have more evolved variants of each sector. Xi Jinping's securitarianism is definitely more evolved than Louis XIV's securitarianism. Warrior consciousness of an Industrial Age neoreactionary like the blogger Sargon of Accad is more evolved than the ancient Sargon's one.

I agree that not all sectors appeared at the same time, there was no pro-market ideology before the Enlightenment and no inclusivism before WW2. I also agree that some eras one sector becomes more prominent than the others. In the Middle Ages, this was the theocracy sector. In the Age of Discovery (16th-18th century) it was the securitarian sector and dynastic power. Today mainstream politics is mostly about market and inclusivity sectors, at least in English-speaking nations.

So, maybe we can add the third dimension to make the 6-sector circle a tube, moving along the third dimension representing moving towards a more evolved form of a particular style of sociopolitical consciousness?