🧩 Philosophy 1d ago · Rob Ennals

The Most Important Political Dimension is Certainty

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People love to create political compasses. The most famous one has left vs right on one dimension, and authoritarian vs libertarian on the other. Another popular one has political vs social liberal/conservative. Broadly speaking, the goal seems to be to come up with a set of dimensions that puts your beliefs next to the people everyone is supposed to like, and your rivals close to taboo figures like Hitler. There is a whole subreddit for this.I don’t think left vs right is a particularly useful

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