Damn, damn, damn.  For the past year or so I’ve been priding myself on reading Metafilter as a source of balanced, reasoned political discussion.  Then this thread came up, discussing the Political Compass that mcgees.org discussed last June.  If you remember, here was my score:

Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -7.85

Authoritarian
Left		Right
Libertarian

People posted their scores in the discussion, and someone bothered to chart the distribution of scores:

Everyone’s like me!  I’m about two and a half squares due south of average (the blue square)!  Damn, damn, damn.  The other day I was quoting two things from the board to David (my brother).  “Damn, you guys are a bunch of arrogant assholes,” he said.  Au contraire!  A bunch of arrogant, Left-Libertarian assholes.

I also learned a great new word from the discussion, enthymeme, that I probably should have known already.

Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:53:39 +0000
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