Comments on: A Thrive/Survive Theory Of The Political Spectrum http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 03:48:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: A battle through the mists of time | The New International Outlook http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/#comment-126663 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 05:29:44 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=237#comment-126663 […] There is much to discuss on these fronts, and those who may find the talk of Hyperborean and Atlantean conspiracies odd, my find it more palatable to approach the matter from a HBD perspective (see point two here). […]

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]]> By: *Slate Star Codex* | Nation of Beancounters http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/#comment-118933 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 17:43:54 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=237#comment-118933 […] 22. “I propose that the best way for leftists to get themselves in a rightist frame of mind is to imagine there is a zombie apocalypse tomorrow.” Link. […]

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]]> By: Andy http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/#comment-73185 Thu, 08 May 2014 23:03:25 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=237#comment-73185 Don’t forget how science stopped in 1972.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/#comment-73182 Thu, 08 May 2014 22:55:25 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=237#comment-73182 I think Jeff means that people with crewcuts are much more common than full-fledged hippies today, therefore the world has moved right from the 60s. I think this is a pretty stupid comment, both considering fairly superficial characteristics and trying to compare a hairstyle to a lifestyle.

But it is certainly true that most people consider the world to have rebounded right from the extremes of left reached by the hippies. You should at least explicitly acknowledge this and explain it away, either taking the obvious position that there is a lot of right-wards noise against a left-wards trend, or, if you really mean what you said, explain in what sense the 80s are left of the 70s.

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]]> By: jaimeastorga2000 http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/#comment-73128 Thu, 08 May 2014 21:33:07 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=237#comment-73128 I do not understand this comment.

(I wrote the grandparent, so I’m curious).

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]]> By: Dan http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/#comment-72044 Wed, 07 May 2014 16:03:26 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=237#comment-72044 Leftism brings collapse. If there are 100 tics to the leftist singularity, society goes one tic at a time until failure and then resets far to the right.

The presently problem in the west is utter dysgenic demographic calamity, led both by technology and by a breakdown in ‘family values’ (i.e. modern leftism) in the west.

If the current dysgenic demographic calamity continues, dramatic failure is not avoidable. Europe, which precedes us in leftism, socialism and demographic decline, is already moribund, unable to approach its all-time highs of 2007.

In failure, things can instantly jump many tics to the right. Europe’s right wing is far to the right of America’s. In a failed America, many leftist platforms do not even make sense.

One good example of a jump discontinuity to the right in America is re crime. Views became more and more sympathetic toward criminals until the collapse in 1990 when the core of almost every major US city was uninhabitable. An enormous law-and-order system (a police state almost) developed in just a decade driven by Democrat mayors, and crime declined.

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]]> By: Dan http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/#comment-72034 Wed, 07 May 2014 15:39:47 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=237#comment-72034 “Communism is very leftist, but society eventually decided not to go that way.”

Heh.

Many societies went lustfully that way until they destroyed themselves utterly and the char-blackened remains of those societies covered the globe to serve as a lesson to all.

The west drifts leftward while China, Russia and Eastern Europe have moved rightward. Having seen that leftism properly implemented leaves hardly one stone atop another they are immune for at least one generation.

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]]> By: Matt S Trout (mst) http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/#comment-47161 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:37:59 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=237#comment-47161 I came independently to the same education argument and it seemed to me sufficiently obvious that I wasn’t really sure why it wasn’t in the post.

Possibly that means there’s a reason it’s a reach that I’m missing, but I can’t immediately see one.

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]]> By: jaimeastorga2000 http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/#comment-43153 Sun, 02 Mar 2014 23:52:58 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=237#comment-43153 I’d like to rephrase my earlier comment. Yes, it is paternalistic. No, that doesn’t somehow make it untrue.

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]]> By: Andy http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/#comment-36135 Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:48:44 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=237#comment-36135 This may well depend on the kind of hardship. People who exist in resource scarcity have more to gain from the left, while I feel that people who perceive dangerous threats all around are more likely to identify with the right. But that’s just my wild-ass guess.

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