The folks at the Political Compass have put together, well, the Political Compass. This quiz lets you find yourself both on the economic left-right access, but also on authoritarian-libertarian axis. The idea is that this gets around the issue of "social" conservatives (and liberals) vs "economic" conservatives (and liberals).
Good stuff.
For the record, I came out
I think this is fairly accurate -- but I have no idea how well it jibes with anyone else's perceptions of me.
Sure, it's not as cool as knowing that you're "Hugo Drax" or "the Mona Lisa" or "Albert Einstein in a Peignoir," but it's probably more valuable. So what are you?
(Via Andrew Sullivan)
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I'm -2.88 x -3.59, according to the test. Gandhiesque, which doesn't seem quite right for a committed cynic.
And I'm Benoit Mandelbrot Holding A Chicken, which kicks ass!
Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -3.64
... a little more to the economic left than I thought.
Economic Left/Right: -3.00 (Left)
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.00 (Libertarian)
Don't know how extreme that makes me compared to most folks. Most of the 'famous' people they had up on their chart were right-wing authoritarians.
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