“Hey, people with too much money and power tend to become anti-human psychopaths. We should probably re-arrange society to avoid this problem.”
“Yeah, a dictatorship sounds like exactly the solution to that!”
This makes more sense than Horseshoe Theory, since I’ve yet to see someone go so far right that they wind up on the left.
The political spectrum is a 3D one. You’ve got left wing and right wing then you’ve got dictatorial and liberal, but the third dimension is the important one. The Z axis is intelligence. The right seem to move both to the right but also down into the realm of deeply stupid, after a while they hit the edge of the graph in the x-axis but the z-axis seems to extend infinitely into the stupid.
What does the y axis represent?
It’s not a chart. There’s no axis’
Im not understanding what you mean, are you saying the closer 2 things are the more similar it is? if so what does the black line represent?
You could draw a similar diagram in other contexts. Antivaxxers coming from the left-leaning hippy crowd and converging with the religious crowd on the right. Etc.
Yeah like Richard Dawkins pushing anti-trans conspiracy theories and platforming anti-science religous bigots.
Sam Harris straight up started a “Free Will isn’t real, now come cherrypick Buddhism and blame Arabs for destroying Europe with me!” cult, and became best bros with Jordan Peterson.
