[pyro-manic]

Originally posted by Rictor


yeah, I can agree with that. I am suportive of the right to own private property, but don't want to see the multinationals ruling the world, since corporations are in effect unaccountable tyrannies.

You don't think we're already there? Christ, all the major political parties are tonsil-deep in some corporation's rectum as it stands, and I can't see it getting better any time soon (you can't change the law because you're not in government, and you can't get into government without being in the pocket of the people you're trying to turn the law against!). As I see it, all lobbyists should be shot, and no-one holding public office should be allowed to have associations with any profit-making organisation, on pain of pain...

I dunno about my political stance. I'm definitely left-wing, leaning towards socialist, but the finer details I'm none-too-sure about. My ideal societal structure would be something like that of the Culture (from Iain M. Banks' sci-fi books), but that's about as feasible as a chocolate teapot - given the state of our species at the moment....

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Goober5000
And the third axis would be...?

Sane - Insane

[pyro-manic]

KT: Thanks for the link! Though some of those statements were slightly obtuse...

Here's me.

Hmm, that's more extreme than I thought! I'm comparable to Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Llama!

[Nuke]

Originally posted by Goober5000
And the third axis would be...?

well theres always another axis, look at string theory, it just took someone to look for em thats all. well ya got the ecinomical axis, the social axis, how about the morality axis, fundamentalisim vs civil rights.

as fot the two axis thing i share ghandi's spot

[Rictor]

there is the economic axis, thats Left-Right, then there is the liberty axis, thats Authoritarian-Libertarian...so what else...conflict resolution (war and peace) is pretty much covered on the second axis.

I guess you could have a cultural axis, going from Conservative to Progressive. Though that would only apply to yourself, since your willingness to impose that on other people is measured on the second axis.

[Nuke]

why stop with three axes, i want at least 5

[Rictor]

how about one for cheese?
cheese lovers, Frenchmen for example, can be on one end of the secptrum, while cheese haters, lets say cannibals and vegans, get the other end.

I think that political science would be greatly advanced if we only we analyzed the significance of cheese in international affairs. There would be no more war, we civilized cheese-lover would finally be united against those filthy cheese-hating scoundrels.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Rictor
there is the economic axis, thats Left-Right, then there is the liberty axis, thats Authoritarian-Libertarian...so what else...conflict resolution (war and peace) is pretty much covered on the second axis.

I was semi-serious about sanity being the third axis as it's completely independant of the other two and it does affect politics. The actions of an sane right wing authoritarian are pretty different from those of an insane one.

[Ace]

The third axis should be the:
AXIS OF EVIL!™



Edit- Thanks.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Ace
AXIS OF EVIL!(tm)

NumLock = on

Hold down ALT and type 0153 on the number keypad: ™

[Knight Templar]

You tell em, Sandiwich!

[Sandwich]

Hmm. Just tried it w/o numlock - works.