09-20-2018, 01:25 PM
Got a source?
This is very different from the more standard right-left/authoritarian-libertarian divide.We have a pentagon instead of a square or circle.
It is telling that Hitler and Stalin are close to each other. Both were military expansionists once they got the chance, murderous tyrants, and collectivists at the worst -- the sort of collectivism that crushes all individuality.
It would be interesting to see where some historical figures of politics from early-modern times to now -- Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Robespierre, Napoleon, Garibaldi, Juarez, William II, Gandhi, Adenauer, Trotsky, Churchill, FDR, Franco, de Gaulle, Khomeini, Deng Xiaoping, Reagan, Kennedy, Mandela, Thatcher, M L King, Gorbachev, Saddam Hussein. Havel and Qaddafi fit. Or is this only for 20th century and later figures?
What would someone near the center of the pentagon be like?
I am tempted to believe that people might be extremely traditionalist on some values and either counter-cultural or 'communist' on economics.
This is very different from the more standard right-left/authoritarian-libertarian divide.We have a pentagon instead of a square or circle.
It is telling that Hitler and Stalin are close to each other. Both were military expansionists once they got the chance, murderous tyrants, and collectivists at the worst -- the sort of collectivism that crushes all individuality.
It would be interesting to see where some historical figures of politics from early-modern times to now -- Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Robespierre, Napoleon, Garibaldi, Juarez, William II, Gandhi, Adenauer, Trotsky, Churchill, FDR, Franco, de Gaulle, Khomeini, Deng Xiaoping, Reagan, Kennedy, Mandela, Thatcher, M L King, Gorbachev, Saddam Hussein. Havel and Qaddafi fit. Or is this only for 20th century and later figures?
What would someone near the center of the pentagon be like?
I am tempted to believe that people might be extremely traditionalist on some values and either counter-cultural or 'communist' on economics.
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.