Speakpigeon
Contributor
- Joined
- Feb 4, 2009
- Messages
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- Location
- Paris, France, EU
- Basic Beliefs
- Rationality (i.e. facts + logic), Scepticism (not just about God but also everything beyond my subjective experience)
I would say:Ok, let's make sweeping generalisations of various political ideologies. Typical brain failure's of people in that camp.
Here's mine.
Conservatives are typically essentialist. People do what they do because it's in their nature, and it's a waste of time to change them. People belong to eternal categories and society only superficially changes.
socialists/leftists
Spend ALL their time analysing the problem. As if that is all that is necessary is to understand why something happens. But seem to think that all we need to do is pass some sort of law or regulation and all people will magically adapt their values to the new law. Not sure what the philosophical term for this is? Overaly analytical?
Libertarians (and fiscal liberals)
Operate with the idea that all people have perfect knowledge of the world, that all people are basically omniscient. And also, when they have information they will act on it. Ie, humans as value optimsing robots driven by base desires.
I'm not going to use the term "liberal" because it seems to mean different things in Europe vs USA.
What's yours?
Most Conservatives are people who vote to maintain advantages they think they have.
Most Socialists are people who vote to obtain advantages they think others have.
Most Libertarians are people who think they personally can thrive in a system where the state is limited to preventing threats, physical violence and coertion.
What most of these people say of themselves will be quite different.
Only few people really believe in any high-level principle that significantly affect their behaviour, like democracy, justice and such. Those who do tend to suffer as a result unless they are also very smart, which happens occasionally, which may result in some sort of progress being made.
EB