Metafilter politics
Damn, damn, damn. For the past year or so I’ve been priding myself on reading Metafilter as a source of balanced, reasoned political discussion. Then this thread came up, discussing the Political Compass that mcgees.org discussed last June. If you remember, here was my score:
Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -7.85
| Authoritarian | |||
| Left |
|
Right | |
| Libertarian | |||
People posted their scores in the discussion, and someone bothered to chart the distribution of scores:
Everyone’s like me! I’m about two and a half squares due south of average (the blue square)! Damn, damn, damn. The other day I was quoting two things from the board to David (my brother). “Damn, you guys are a bunch of arrogant assholes,” he said. Au contraire! A bunch of arrogant, Left-Libertarian assholes.
I also learned a great new word from the discussion, enthymeme, that I probably should have known already.
Email subscription
