02-02-2019, 07:06 PM
(02-02-2019, 11:16 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: I started with the classical 4 Nolanist sectors:
- leftist individualists (counterculture)
- right-wing individualists (libertarians)
- leftist collectivists (communists)
- right-wing collectivist (nationalists)
But I felt something is missing. I added one for regimes devoted to religious transcendence, and got my 5-sector diagram. Seems to work.
Some people want to have an autocracy-democracy axis. I had another idea. The distance from the centre of the circle measures the readiness to use violence or "extremism". Tyrants and violent anarchist revolutionaries are both on the periphery. Autocratic power is just a tool. Violent revolutionaries dislike it, when it's used by their opponents (the Bolshies hated the tzar), but they have to qualms about seizing autocratic power when it becomes available.
Having many axes does not affect the ability to define extremism by distance from the mean. We already understand that the distance from the center is merely the square root of the sum of the squares of the distances from each axis center. A bit messy, but accurate nonetheless. It's the basis of vector analysis.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.