Politics is often betrayed on a left-right spectrum, with those who want to abolish capitalism on the far left and those who want to either defend the capitalist system or push it in more primitive, feudal direction on the far right. But there is another scale that goes from top to bottom, with those who support a few people or institutions having most of the authority in a society to those who believe that individual adult human beings have the right to say or do anything they damned well please so long as it doesn’t cause direct injury to someone else. Social authoritarians are at the top of this scale, and social libertarians are based because they are at the base of the scale.
Covid and the Authoritarian/Libertarian Divide
Covid and the Authoritarian/Libertarian…
Covid and the Authoritarian/Libertarian Divide
Politics is often betrayed on a left-right spectrum, with those who want to abolish capitalism on the far left and those who want to either defend the capitalist system or push it in more primitive, feudal direction on the far right. But there is another scale that goes from top to bottom, with those who support a few people or institutions having most of the authority in a society to those who believe that individual adult human beings have the right to say or do anything they damned well please so long as it doesn’t cause direct injury to someone else. Social authoritarians are at the top of this scale, and social libertarians are based because they are at the base of the scale.