Political compass for the21st century

[Eric the Green]

(05-19-2020, 04:39 AM)Blazkovitz Wrote:

(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?

Thanks for checking out my article. Planetary and Spiral Dynamics are dynamic fields with much potential to yield insights now and in the future.

Norway is a mixed economy with strong elements of socialism as well as capitalism. It is more socialist than Bernie Sanders.

Pluto is a planet, and Sedna and Eris maybe not, but Eris and Pluto are included by astronomers in a small category of dwarf planets, of which Pluto is the most significant. Astrologers must refer to Pluto, and historians notice its cycles, because by historical correlation and correct prediction, it has proven to be super-significant in the affairs of civilization and group power. It may not be so important in personal charts, unless other indicators align with it.

Pluto as I mentioned in the article has far more significance than the other smaller bodies. Not only is it the largest of them, but its dual nature is unique in the solar system, and this nature of Pluto is immensely relevant to the current issues of interdependence, polarization, ecology, war and peace, the consciousness revolution of the sixties, human potential movements, depth psychology, identity and diversity politics, etc. All very related to Pluto, the 20th century planet. And the reasons given for demoting it are false; no other planet has "cleared its orbit" any better than Pluto, and Pluto's orbit (and all the orbits of its small Plutino companions) is the only one among drawf and minor planets (except Ceres and the asteroids) which fit in a resonant pattern with the other planets. The outer 3 have a 1-2-3 relationship that coincides with the modern saeculum and illuminate it. And now, the USA is undergoing its first Pluto return! That is enormously important as we face the debacle of Trump and this cold civil war fourth turning.

Dismiss Pluto if you prefer, but those who study cycles cannot, whether they know it or not. In a way, we can say that Pluto is potent beyond measure. That's because of the unique total concentration of its dual nature, and it's very long cycle that is intimately related to and connected to the other cycles which it supercedes and dominates. And its archetypal meaning of death and rebirth is powerfully represented by its return from the depths to move inside Neptune's orbit, rising from the oceans as it were like Atlantis every 248 years.

As above, so below!

Well, that's enough for one post.....