On 2012-11-07 5:11 AM, Changaco wrote:
Just a side note, "left" and "libertarian" aren't opposites, those
would be respectively "right" and "authoritarian".
The Nolan chart is bullshit.
The state, aka the left. has ten thousand points of doctrine, and anyone
who disagrees on any one point is a heretic, therefore a rightist, even
though one heretic disagrees only on point 1537, and another rightist
disagrees only on point 6397
Since the left rules, left is high status, right is low status, so every
rightist wants to say "Hey, I am not like all those other rightists",
but our rulers do not care about such distinctions.
It is like the lead up to the holy wars of the seventeenth century, the
lead up to the thirty years war. Protestants were whoever disagreed
with the Roman Catholic Church, even though each brand of protestant
disagreed on completely different issues. The official Church was one
thing, but protestantism was many, many things.
You cannot present political tendencies in two dimensional space.
Rather, the official state doctrine is a small region in high
dimensional space, and everything outside that small region is
rightism. The further from the center you are, the more right you are,
and the closer to the center, the more left you are.
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