Is the left / right spectrum actually a circle, just viewed from the side ?

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[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Great insight!!! I'd never considered that before! Seems obvious now. Saved.

At best I've been considering it a 3.5 dimensional spectrum with multiple "axes":

1) top-bottom: totalitarian vs total freedom (voluntarism, aka an-archy = no-rulers)

2) front-back: facts/truth vs lies/deception, from hard to soft to hard again a LOT of grey area between

3) horizontal: self vs tribe vs global

I've avoided using the "left" and "right" labels - because it's also binary and doesn't consider the third (though this is still simplistic).

The third is tricky because like Venn diagrams our social circles may overlap and change priorities. A family is social and even within the family you make have priorities. Then of course there are wider and wider social circles into nations or greater.

It's folly to say that only the "left" is concerned about social issues and that the "right" is selfish. They both have much to offer and would do better to work it out together - away from centralized power.

Further, people should have different ideas on the different issues, and if all these issues were mapped out within this 3D sphere you might find an interesting pattern in someone's cloud of points to help describe their general but not absolute political nature.

All of the extreme points are abstract forms and singularities with zero dimensions where it touches on the political sphere without corners (not a political square, diamond, or cube).

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    [–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    Two spheres - one as I described and/or another with the economic-cultural-civil axes. To visualize a person's political cloud properly in the 3D sphere would require one of three options I can think of: 1) a 2D animation of the sphere slowly rotating to create a sense of depth and space to visualize their point cloud, 2) some kind of 3D rendering with 3D glasses, or 3) inconveniently and/or not easily read by normie non-3D people: orthographic blueprint-like dual or triple images from the X, Y, and/or Z axis. All 3 options would work better with colour coded points.

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      [–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I very familiar in several 3D programs but have yet to dive into Blender. Might be relevant for 3D, should you need it, though there may be simpler options.