Is this a thing?
>>524553088First ive heard of it. I think people just call it fatigue. See also “I just wanted to be left alone”.
Yes, it's a thing.
>>524553088They're called fence-shitters.
>>524553088>The past is a gaping hole. The more you run from it, the bigger it gets. Its edges gnawing at your heels.
luigi mangione was a far center extremist
>https://youtu.be/HLNhPMQnWu4?si=itDFBD7m57pGTAhhHere's your refresh since you're new.
>>524553088Yes, actuallyThe traditional political compass has two axes. Left vs right is the socialism-capitalism axis, and up vs down is the authoritarian-libertarian axis. If you're "center" in the US that almost always means you're slightly capatalism-biased on the left-right axis; but regardless, you're more or less in the middle on the left-right axis. But it says nothing about where you are on the up-down (personal freedom) axisie: Someone can be moderate between socialism and capitalism, but prefer extreme authoritarianism (aka totalitarianism), or extreme libertarianism (aka anarchism)It should be noted that the extreme left and right ends of this compass almost always are authoritarian, because as they those ends try to stabilize themselves (they aren't naturally stable) they tend to need more all encompassing and harder regulation, and enforce them more vigorously. Generally speaking, though, the 4 directions on this compass aren't equal, and each behave qualitatively differently. There seems to be a strong attractor toward pure totalitarianism with privileged elites (meaning, the compass as a model doesn't really work anymore; but it would mostly correspond to totalitarian extreme capitalism, but again: de facto only the elites get the captial), which -- consistently -- is what everywhere on earth seems to be evolving to now. And perhaps another unstable attractor toward moderate left-right mild libertarianism
