[91553] in Cypherpunks
Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Galt)
Sun Dec 7 21:34:17 1997
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 20:51:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Galt <jongalt@pinn.net>
To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
cc: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>, James Love <love@cptech.org>,
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu,
cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199712041107.GAA29227@users.invweb.net>
Reply-To: Jon Galt <jongalt@pinn.net>
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote:
> As I stated in my previous post the Nolan chart is flawed. In it's
> attempts to be "two-dimensional" it artificially separates interdependent
> philosophies. Economic Freedom = Personal Freedom. You can not have one
> without the other. The major failings of the socialist is their
> unwillingness to accept this fact. A free society can not survive under a
> socialist regime any more that a totalitarian society can survive under a
> capitalist one.
I agree with your assessment of the interdependence of economic freedom
and personal freedom. But the Nolan chart itself is not flawed - the
political belief systems that it describes are flawed. That is, any
political belief system that advocates different levels of governmental
control for the two - that belief system is flawed.
The Nolan chart does a much better job of describing them than the
traditional left-right spectrum does. Nor have I seen a better
descriptive device.
Incidentally, here is my score:
Your Personal Self-Government Score is 100%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 100%.
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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
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