Jerrek
14-02-2004, 01:07
I do believe http://www.politopia.com to be slightly more accurate. However, the right side of the island do not represent the "right-wingers". Instead, this island measures two things: personal freedom, and economic freedom.
As you can see, the left-right scale represents personal freedom, where left is total freedom and right is no freedom, and the north-south scale represents economic freedom with north being total freedom, and south being no freedom.
There are nine "quadrants:" NW, N, NE, W, middle, E, SW, S, and SE.
However, I found it to be an excellent scale and very accurate, at least on the libertarian side. If you guys don't mind, please post your results.
It will ask for an email address. You do not have to type in a real address. It stores the record by email address though.
To look mine up, type in lastlegionary@hotmail.com. Take the quiz, and post the email address you entered here.
You can enter a fake email address, such as Bifta@nth.com
Just be sure to put it here. If you don't want to bother with that, just state the quadrant and copy the "meet a local" from the text provided.
I'm in the NW quadrant, with Ayn Rand.
NEO, a stereotypical Northwesterner
"Freedom to do whatever you'd like, as long as you don't interfere with the equal freedom of others."
My name is Neo, and I'm a software designer on the NW coast. I usually work from home, or from my sailboat while on an extended cruises. I've got friends of all stripes-some are making a lot of money in the software industry, some are gay, some are economists, some use recreational drugs, some are very religious-what they all have in common is that they're all very open-minded and tolerant.
I tend to be optimistic about the future. I believe that the most important natural resource is human creativity and that people should be able to pursue their hopes and dreams without interference from anyone else. While I recognize the importance of enforcing property rights and contracts, I think that in general, government interference in the marketplace only stifles human creativity. Politically, I describe myself as a libertarian. I loathe paying taxes, I'm disgusted by the "war on drugs," which is really just a war on people, and I think it's certainly true that "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_stuff/politopia.jpg
As you can see, the left-right scale represents personal freedom, where left is total freedom and right is no freedom, and the north-south scale represents economic freedom with north being total freedom, and south being no freedom.
There are nine "quadrants:" NW, N, NE, W, middle, E, SW, S, and SE.
However, I found it to be an excellent scale and very accurate, at least on the libertarian side. If you guys don't mind, please post your results.
It will ask for an email address. You do not have to type in a real address. It stores the record by email address though.
To look mine up, type in lastlegionary@hotmail.com. Take the quiz, and post the email address you entered here.
You can enter a fake email address, such as Bifta@nth.com
Just be sure to put it here. If you don't want to bother with that, just state the quadrant and copy the "meet a local" from the text provided.
I'm in the NW quadrant, with Ayn Rand.
NEO, a stereotypical Northwesterner
"Freedom to do whatever you'd like, as long as you don't interfere with the equal freedom of others."
My name is Neo, and I'm a software designer on the NW coast. I usually work from home, or from my sailboat while on an extended cruises. I've got friends of all stripes-some are making a lot of money in the software industry, some are gay, some are economists, some use recreational drugs, some are very religious-what they all have in common is that they're all very open-minded and tolerant.
I tend to be optimistic about the future. I believe that the most important natural resource is human creativity and that people should be able to pursue their hopes and dreams without interference from anyone else. While I recognize the importance of enforcing property rights and contracts, I think that in general, government interference in the marketplace only stifles human creativity. Politically, I describe myself as a libertarian. I loathe paying taxes, I'm disgusted by the "war on drugs," which is really just a war on people, and I think it's certainly true that "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_stuff/politopia.jpg