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My current favorite political thinker, George Lakoff, has a whole body of work related to this subject. Conservations are focused on authority, while liberals a
by dustmop 17y ago
My current favorite political thinker, George Lakoff, has a whole body of work related to this subject. Conservations are focused on authority, while liberals are focused on empathy, and his theories conclude that the difference is based on different mental metaphors for the how families and family figures correspond to roles in government. His Wikipedia page has a decent enough introduction to his ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff
- absconditus 17y agoIt's a good thing we can all be easily classified into two groups.
- yalurker 17y agoExactly. Words like "liberal" and "conservative" have become incredibly loaded terms, and the notion that they describe everyone is absurd oversimplification. At a very basic level, the combination of social and economic issues is silly. The politicalcompass.org site/method is not without bias, but at least they break it into a two dimensional problem. I've found that a great number of hackers/engineers skew towards more libertarian beliefs, where they may be "liberal" on one issue and then "conservative" on the next, but overall maintain a perfectly rational & consistent basis for their beliefs. These types of people don't fit well on a simplified 1-dimensional line between left & right.