SS11: Notes from Thursday, 13 Jan

Today, we revisited the political spectrum with an emphasis on understanding the commonalities between the philosophies that are equidistance from the political centre.  We talked about learning to apply general princples instead of having to learn all of the possible specific cases possible.  Hmmm; what does that mean?  Well, for example,  communist and fascist ideas are at each end of the spectrum, and each has heavy censorship of the media.  Both socialism and conservativism are closer to the centre, and while they have some types of censorship, it is much less than for those at the ends.  Liberalism is in the centre, with little censorship.  Thus, as long as you know where a group is on the spectrum, you can figure out how they would feel about censorship.  By taking the time to cross-reference the different groups on a number of issues (like censorship) you will gain the ability to have a sense of what the different philosophies would look like if they ruled in real life.