Submitted by AnarcheAmor in AskRaddle
Just saw some videos by a youtuber named Grej. He does something similar to Jreg but instead of radical political ideologies and the promotion of centricide, he focuses on extreme philosophies and promotes realicide, or the death of realist philosophies.
This opened up a new world to me as I've never heard of half of those philosophies in anything outside of fiction. For example, I never knew Darwinism was ever taken as an ideology instead of just an approach to evolutionary science, and I thought IngSoc was just something made up by Orwell, I never would have guessed that people would have taken it seriously.
There's a whole slew of them and once you put them all into scale with the political compass, the "radical" ideologies like AnCom, AuthCom, even fascism, look really close to center (which is kinda sobering to think about). For example, Anarchism as we know it is super centrist compared to the likes of Soulism, Meta-Anarchy, and Chaosism. Fascism, as we know it, is a puppy dog compared to IngSoc, Censor Authoritarianism, and Darwinism.
I found myself being attracted to Soulism, the idea that you can apply anarchism to everything including the laws of physics, and Meta-Anarchy which is anarchism applied to anarchism. So I see myself as a Meta-Anarchic Soulist in terms of off-compass politics.
What about you guys?
Bezotcovschina wrote
I don't care about anything related to mapping ideas on 2D plane. It can be funny, I suppose, like when I was a kid, children were obsessed with making and sharing (pre-internet kind of sharing) silly personality tests. It was funny for what it was, but it was a shitty way to really know a person.
Now, all of this political compass things is a very shallow pond where a lot of people trying to find their identity for the pure sake of just find one and stick to it.