But a friend of mine found a “What Sci-Fi Character Are You?” quiz that I liked…
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My Fiancee and I are heading up to East Lansing later today for a film festival. We’re planning on attending two movies, “Gigantic” – a documentary about the band They Might Be Giants and “Bubbahotep” – Bruce Campbell’s latest movie.
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Oliver Willis links to a Quizilla survey designed to determine which political stereotype fits you the best. The trouble is it only asks six questions, so the results are pretty generic. I prefer the quiz over at PoliticalCompass.org. It takes a few minutes more, but it adds a vertical, social issues axis to the standard economic left-right axis.
The old one-dimensional categories of ‘right’ and ‘left’ , established for the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly simplistic for today’s complex political landscape.
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On the standard left-right scale, how do you distinguish leftists like Stalin and Gandhi? It’s not sufficient to say that Stalin was simply more left than Gandhi. There are fundamental political differences between them that the old categories on their own can’t explain. Similarly, we generally describe social reactionaries as ‘right-wingers’, yet that leaves left-wing reactionaries like Robert Mugabe and Pol Pot off the hook.
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