From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2002 - 01:13:16 MST
I tested right on the central y-axis (neither "left" or "right")
and about 4 clicks up from the bottom (utter libertarian
supposedly).
A lot of the questions are phrased impossibly. None of the
answers work or all of the answers are insufficient. Are the
rich taxed too much? Well, yes. But they didn't ask whether
the poor and everyone is taxed to much. Is charity better than
Social Security to take care of the retired from the workforce?
Probably not, but other things like totally free-form retirement
accounts are MUCH better. See what I mean?
- samantha
Robert Coyote wrote:
> for your amusement I tested dead center on lower section vert and one click
> right
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Amara Graps" <Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de>
> To: <extropians@extropy.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:12 AM
> Subject: re: Political Compass
>
>
> :
> :
> : >G.P., Tue Jan 08, 2002
> : >Referring to the recent discussions on the list on politics and
> : >libertarian and socialdemocratic opinions, I wish to call your
> : >attention on the site www.politicalcompass.org The site proposes a
> : >test, well planned in my opinion, and a broad classification of
> : >political positions in four quadrants: authoritarian/libertarian,
> : >right/left. The difference between authoritarian and libertarian is
> : >evident, the difference between right and left is the classical one:
> : >(oversimplifying) right = the state stays out of the dynamics of the
> : >economy, leaving it completely to market forces, left = the state
> : >takes active measures to steer the economy.
> :
> : Hi G.P.
> :
> : I didn't take that test, but it sounds exactly like the Nolan
> : Chart. That chart shows up here periodically. It has a long history,
> : my first recollections of that chart is around 1986 (Does anyone know
> : the year it was created?).
> :
> : I'll repost my message from last June, because it seems relevant here.
> :
> : Amara
> :
> : ========from June 2001
> :
> : Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:58:23 +0200 (MET DST)
> : From: Amara Graps <graps@galileo.mpi-hd.mpg.de>
> : Subject: Re: Political views?
> : Reply-to: Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de
> :
> : From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com), Tue Jun 19 2001
> : >Having been under the impression that I came to my own liberal foreground
> : >because of a propensity to think (at least I've thought so, all these
> : >years), I decided to investigate libertarianism a bit, and what I found
> were
> : >many sites where libertarians, gun advocates, Branch Davidians, homegrown
> : >militias and the like are linked.
> :
> : I know very little about the good Internet Web sites for
> : libertarianism, (and sorry to hear about the above) however, the
> : following books are the first that I recommend to anyone who is
> : interested in investigating libertarianism:
> :
> : David Friedman: _Machinery of Freedom_
> : (see: http://www.best.com/~ddfr/#mybooks)
> :
> : Henry Hazlitt: _Economics in One Lesson_
> : (see: http://www.hazlitt.org/)
> :
> : If you still are interested to learn more of the political
> : libertarianism philosophy, then continue with the great classic:
> :
> : Frederick A. Hayak: _The Road to Serfdom_
> : (see: http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek/docs/HAYSERF.HTML)
> :
> : And Chris Hibbert has reminded us about the Nolan Chart, which
> : you might find useful and interesting:
> :
> : http://www.self-gov.org/wspq.html
> :
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