The Only Political Spectrum that Matters
Are you ready for it? I present to you a foolproof political spectrum. One that has gone through many rigorous tests and come out the other side victorious and true. This is the only political spectrum you will ever need.
There are just two sides, nothing in the middle. While practically, there may be many steps in the middle, philosophically speaking it really isn't a spectrum. These are two discreet states. You are either a free person and you own yourself, or someone else rules over you.
With that being said, the following would actually be a much better representation of this non-spectrum:
Two discreet states. No middle ground.
My thoughts upon and after skimming through this, in the order in which they occurred:
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I respectfully choose to disagree, with a 100% upvote to show my respect. :)
Freedom and non-freedom are not black and white, there's a huge spectrum of grey between. In fact no one on this Earth is, ever has or ever will be truly free. Such a person would be a god, an immortal being with powers over time and space.
All the rest of us are limited by the laws of nature, genetics, human social behavior hard-coded in our brains, upbringing, learned behavior, health, what people around us do, weather, climate, random events, etc etc. Laws made by human authority also do limit us, and we should try to avoid that as much as possible, but these laws come quite far down the list of things to avoid in life. :)
Yep, that about sums it up. I've come to the realization that most people are actually afraid of liberty.
It is much more accurate than the Nolan Chart.
I'm leery of embracing a pure black & white, either/or argument here.
People live in communities, and make sacrifices to make those communities better. Consider the Amish, who sacrifice a great deal to embrace the values that give their lives meaning. I think what makes their example compelling is the fact that adolescents are allowed to go out into the world and reject the value of their parents without judgement. They're not compelled to adopt the community beliefs. But if they come back and decide to abide by them, they're expected to serve a community which, in many ways, gets a lot more autonomous freedom as a community than many cultures experience.
In the day-to-day for most of us, we're free to drive on roads where we obey traffic signals; we pay taxes for the maintenance of those roads, we abide by laws that prevent damage to property and harm to persons. We fly in planes that have to be regulated by bodies that assure our safety. We see doctors that have to undergo training and certification. Do the restrictions make us less free? Even though they facilitate things like travel, security, and long life?
So of course there is a middle ground. Navigating that middle ground is the purpose of culture, conversation, and society. And it's why the polarization that the media is foisting upon us is the real threat.