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[Benton]

(06-01-2017, 01:14 PM)xxlt Wrote: An older and wiser friend pointed out something which I thought was pretty self evident, but then I realized it wasn't so I will share it. The relationship here isn't a line - it is a circle.

Now you can still be critical of the linear visual and advocate for a sphere or a cube or whatever, but thinking of this as a circle may redeem it a bit, and also explain some of the confusion about, for example, what fascism means. Elements of the extremes are similar hence their proximity to each other on the circle.

(06-01-2017, 02:04 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I know you're suggesting linear isn't perfect, and I agree with a cube model with the axises being economics, authority, and social, but who placed libertarianism as being closer to fascism than standard conservatism? Whether economically, authoritatively, or socially, it doesn't make sense. 

Yeah, I don't think the depiction matters as much as the attempted association of one school of thought (libertarianism) with a completely unrelated one (fascism).