A steady change along one axis with very little change on the other axis. More than enough evidence to cue, “if you already know what you’re going to believe five years from now, you might as well believe it already.”
I have undergone the exact same move, but I think my political beliefs are not sophisticated enough for me to be able to identify a solid target to “believe already.” My time on the right gave me some pieces of information that strongly falsified a few beliefs often bucketed with the left, even as I moved leftward, which has helped me moderate my trust that continuing leftward would capture the things I expect to believe in the future.
Put another way, politics is multivariate / high dimensional. A clear trend in one specific dimension isn’t meaningless, but is so lossy that I wouldn’t be surprised if it stopped or apparently reversed slightly.
What’s the trend?
(Mostly I write blogposts about what I believe, and journal more regularly than that, to create a record of what I think and why.)
A steady change along one axis with very little change on the other axis. More than enough evidence to cue, “if you already know what you’re going to believe five years from now, you might as well believe it already.”
What’s the axis?
The quiz’s axes are economic left-right and social libertarian-authoritarian. My trend is from right-libertarian to left-libertarian.
I have undergone the exact same move, but I think my political beliefs are not sophisticated enough for me to be able to identify a solid target to “believe already.” My time on the right gave me some pieces of information that strongly falsified a few beliefs often bucketed with the left, even as I moved leftward, which has helped me moderate my trust that continuing leftward would capture the things I expect to believe in the future.
Put another way, politics is multivariate / high dimensional. A clear trend in one specific dimension isn’t meaningless, but is so lossy that I wouldn’t be surprised if it stopped or apparently reversed slightly.