Wednesday, November 12, 2014

I Have No Idea What This Means

But it's Borepatch's fault. 

I went and took the little political test he linked to yesterday, and it said:

You are a: Objectivist Libertarian Non-Interventionist Nationalist Reactionary

Collectivism score: -83%
Authoritarianism score: -67%
Internationalism score: -17%
Tribalism score: 33%
Liberalism score: -67%
I don't know what it means, but I think it means, "my ideal candidates never, ever win".


11 comments:

  1. I'm not sure what this means either, I think it's a fairly close description:
    You are a: Right-Leaning Libertarian Interventionist Cosmopolitan Traditionalist

    Collectivism score: -33%
    Authoritarianism score: -67%
    Internationalism score: 33%
    Tribalism score: -33%
    Liberalism score: -33%

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  2. And then there's me ...

    You are a: Objectivist Anarchist Isolationist Nativist Traditionalist

    Collectivism score: -100%
    Authoritarianism score: -100%
    Internationalism score: -67%
    Tribalism score: 67%
    Liberalism score: -33%

    Hans ... in the NC woods

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  3. I came out as Left-Leaning Libertarian Total-Isolationist Nationalist Reactionary

    The left leaning part is from my economic nationalism not from larger lefty ideals I guess.

    The rest is pretty accurate.

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  4. Conservative Libertarian Non-Interventionist Nationalist Liberal-
    I interpret that as a bunch of mumbo-jumbo!
    Amusing review though. Enjoy your blog always!
    ~jryk

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  5. You are a: Conservative Anarchist Total-Isolationist Nativist Reactionary
    Collectivism score: -67%
    Authoritarianism score: -100%
    Internationalism score: -83%
    Tribalism score: 67%
    Liberalism score: -67%

    Looks as if I'm tribal-er than thou! A little less anti-collectivist, but more anti-authoritarian. We are equally illiberal.

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  6. Scary how many people rush like bugs to a fire to fill out detailed questionnaires about their inner psyches. I wonder how many ISP employees in between the test and the test-taker are watching and taking notes.

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  7. Be not afraid. You're in good company. It labeled me an Ideologue Dreamer Radical Muffin-Gorging Reactionary.

    (I mean, I'm willing to cop to some of that, but really!)

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  8. Francis - you owe me a monitor. Or at least a cleaning wipe.

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  9. I don't get the +/- scale. It suggest a bias towards splitting the cultural differences rather than attempting to be objective.

    Would do a Zero thru 100 myself.

    The multidimensional is rational though.

    The very fact that a political/nationalist/collectivist question is asked suggest possible axis as American left-right axis does - the first axis I would propose is

    Collectivism - How much should the individual show 'deference' to the whole over the individual?

    This is independent of the enforcement mechanism - you don't play ball are you merely personally shunned/boycotted or does the whole assess fines/confinement (or exile)/corporal punishment/death?

    Bringing us to -

    Authoritarianism - How does the whole punish the individual for recalcitrance? If jaywalking an escalate to being taken into custody under threat/action of lethal force, that is 100%.

    Going beyond reasonable in an age of reason -

    Theocracy - how do we separate that axis? Blue Laws, arbitrary and capricious for some higher call. Cannot sell alcohol on Sunday, or Friday, does that sound kosher, Saturday too...

    Nationalism -
    Transnationalism -
    Imperialism -
    Socialism -


    Not a bad concept to make a multi-dimensional political map, just need to lay out the rues before.

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  10. You are a: Objectivist Anarchist Isolationist Nativist Moderate
    Collectivism score: -100%
    Authoritarianism score: -100%
    Internationalism score: -67%
    Tribalism score: 67%
    Liberalism score: 0%

    What does it all mean?

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  11. I'm not sure how I missed -100% on authoritarianism. Excuse the crudeness, but I differ slightly from Fran

    You are a: Objectivist Anarchist Isolationist Nationalist Muff-gorging Reactionary

    Collectivism score: -100%
    Authoritarianism score: -83%
    Internationalism score: -50%
    Tribalism score: 33%
    Liberalism score: -50%

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