Because He Asked

Jewbacca asked if people would be willing to share their results on the Political Compass. So here it is with some modern political thinkers over-laid for reference. (Hmm, modern political thinkers are over-laid? Career change?)



Yep, that plain red dot (the one without the black circle around it) represents me, hangin' out with the Dalai Lama.

Who writes this crap? Primarily, where was the don't give a shit option? And there were other questions I had absolutely no way of answering truthfully in multiple choice format. For example:

Abstract art that doesn't represent anything shouldn't be considered art at all.

Well, yes, I agree. Problem is everything both is something and represents something. Dog shit on the sidewalk is dog shit on the sidewalk. It also can represent a pet owner who is too lazy to pick up after his pet, or maybe a feral hound, or maybe someone too distracted to take notice of what their dog was up to, or maybe it represents some lifestyle nazi trying to dictate how others should care for their pets. So how am I supposed to answer a poorly asked question?

Then there was this one:

Because corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily protect the environment, they require regulation.

My initial reaction to this is to strongly disagree. Corporations can be trusted to voluntarily protect the environment if consumers give up the crusade for low cost and instead only purchase goods produced with a minimal environmental footprint. Living in an urban area means consuming goods and consuming the biproducts from the manufacture of those goods. Unless we outsource the polluting end of things to China.

Let's throw a Z-axis on this damn thing and have it measure political apathy. Then you'll see me wallowing in the sewer while G-dub soars in the clouds. I figure I'm on the opposite end of the chart for the others, I'm probably on the opposite end for that one, too.

Sri Syadasti. All things are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense...