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Political compass for the21st century
To enlarge the tube idea, I imagined ideas as forming layers:

Theocracy seems to have three layers:
-ancient theocracy (Biblical Israel, some elements of the Egyptian civilization)
-medieval theocracy (Catholic Europe, Islam). Today represented by fossilized old style Catholics like Marcel Lefebvre, or by al-Qaeda style Islamism.
-Industrial and Information Age theocracy (Iranian Islamism, American dominion theologists like Falwell)

Nationalism has two layers:
-ancient and early medieval warrior cultures (Assyria, the Turanian nomads, the Viking). This was suppressed by medieval theocracy.
-Industrial Age nationalism proper, culminating in fascism. Trump belongs here as well.

Securitarianism, two layers again:
-ancient and medieval dynastic states, "just father" type of king rather than a warrior king.
-modern securitarianism represented by Xi and Bashar. Typically post-communists or post-nationalists who abandoned their original ideology to put emphasis on stable power.

Proletarianist red sector, two layers:
-Industrial Age workers' movements: Marxism and its spawn, as well as national liberation movements in the Third World which viewed the class conflict as happening between "proletarian nations" and "bourgeois nations".
-Information Age proletarianism: Occupy movement, Internet groups like the Venus Project (futurist communism)

Pro-market, two layers:
-Industrial Age classical liberalism
-Information Age libertarianism

Inclusivism, the youngest kid on the block, has only one layer

The newer layers usually include more "progressive" concepts. Aquinas had no problem with Aristotle's natural science, something Ancient Israelites would avoid as godless. Falwell could accept some forms of democratic governance, unthinkable for Aquinas. Similarly, the Venus Project doesn't rely on class egoism the way Marx did. It's too evolved morally to do that. "The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice" - yes, but the basic concepts stay the same unless we attain a transhuman level, in which case we'll be dealing with concepts unfathomable today. A future theocratic system could believe genetic enhancements are ordained by God as a path to perfection, maybe Christianity wouldn't cope with this concept but something like revived Pythagoreanism could.
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RE: Political compass for the21st century - by Blazkovitz - 05-20-2020, 03:31 AM

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