Looks like I'm in good company.
Economic Left/Right: -7.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.87

I think I'm seeing a trend here.

Don't feel like taking it again, but I'm normally in the -6/-6 range. I don't think I'm that far Left, but I damned well don't think I'm that far Up, either.

Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.67

So many of us land there, Hiker. I think it's folks who know how power flows from the barrel of a gun, yet if you don't try and shoot me, I won't shoot you--so let's play.

CDFingers

Everyone here whose posted their chart seems to be in the same lower left quadrant. I'd love to see what kind of people fall in the other quadrants/ I know what the test maker claims about famous people, but those people haven't actually taken the test, so I'm not entirely convinced of their positioning.

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.21

What do y'all think of this interpretation?


My last chart puts me as anarchist-communist or anarchist-collectivist using this interpretation. Is OK.

CDFingers

I'ce got to say that I think that chart gets thigns entirely wrong. It would call me me a social anarchist when I'm really more of a social democrat.

Eris wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:17 pm I'ce got to say that I think that chart gets thigns entirely wrong. It would call me me a social anarchist when I'm really more of a social democrat.

That just might make you an anarchist in the view of the people who made this chart test.

I'm in that social anarchist category also. I don't think there's much "anarchist" about me. I like order and rules, just fair ones.

featureless wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:43 pm I'm in that social anarchist category also. I don't think there's much "anarchist" about me. I like order and rules, just fair ones.

Same.

sikacz wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:37 pm

Eris wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:17 pm I'ce got to say that I think that chart gets thigns entirely wrong. It would call me me a social anarchist when I'm really more of a social democrat.

That just might make you an anarchist in the view of the people who made this chart test.

That's my point. The test itself is relatively objective, but this new interpretation of it is quite subjective.

Anarchy works if almost everyone is educated.

CDFingers

CDFingers wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:49 pm Anarchy works if almost everyone is educated.

CDFingers

And you have a population of a few dozen. Anarchy at current population levels would be catastrophic, in my opinion.

CDFingers wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:49 pm Anarchy works if almost everyone is educated.

CDFingers

I don't think so. Anarchy might work if everyone respected everyone else and wanted to work for the good of the whole community, but that's not going to happen.

Perhaps on a small off world colony.....

MaxWyatt wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:12 pm Perhaps on a small off world colony.....

Anarchists for SpaceX?

Eris wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:59 pm

CDFingers wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:49 pm Anarchy works if almost everyone is educated.

CDFingers

I don't think so. Anarchy might work if everyone respected everyone else and wanted to work for the good of the whole community, but that's not going to happen.

That's what the education is for. You learn the proper moves for when you interact with the community.

CDFingers

featureless wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:13 pm

MaxWyatt wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:12 pm Perhaps on a small off world colony.....

Anarchists for SpaceX?

That could be interesting.

CDFingers wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:56 pm

Eris wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:59 pm

CDFingers wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:49 pm Anarchy works if almost everyone is educated.

CDFingers

I don't think so. Anarchy might work if everyone respected everyone else and wanted to work for the good of the whole community, but that's not going to happen.

That's what the education is for. You learn the proper moves for when you interact with the community.

CDFingers

Education doesn't overcome emotion and instinct, at least not in everyone, or even in a majority. Selfishness is an unavoidable part of the human condition.

Eris wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:12 pm

CDFingers wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:56 pm

Eris wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:59 pm

CDFingers wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:49 pm Anarchy works if almost everyone is educated.

CDFingers

I don't think so. Anarchy might work if everyone respected everyone else and wanted to work for the good of the whole community, but that's not going to happen.

That's what the education is for. You learn the proper moves for when you interact with the community.

CDFingers

Education doesn't overcome emotion and instinct, at least not in everyone, or even in a majority. Selfishness is an unavoidable part of the human condition.

It is true that humans are an aggressive, violent and tribal species. If we perceive that "the other" is not in our tribe, well, we'll just shoot 'em. Yes. That is our tendency. Anarchy (no authority/no leader) will get lots of people shot--unless we're educated about the human tribe and that we're all in it together.

Russia easily is manipulating the weaker minds in America.

https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/vl ... cc422dfdb5

They are "educating" us about us. That is, they're using freedom of speech to disinform the weak minds among us so as to divide us. So, in order to pave the way for educated anarchy where most everyone knows we're in it together, we have to expose disinformation and provide true information.

Not like it's going to happen. This is my theory and helps to explain why many of us land in the lower left: we're "educated" about being in it together. We're (speaking for myself) also a bit too optimistic and too naive for it actually to work.

Theories are always sort of cool, as long as one can operate one's personal defense weapons--I'm not that naive, though I always look for the good first instead of the bad.

CDFingers