Comments on: The Right Fight for the Right? http://permakent.com/2009/08/21/the-right-fight-for-the-right/ Building relationships between people and with nature. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:42:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Michael R. Bernstein http://permakent.com/2009/08/21/the-right-fight-for-the-right/#comment-9924 Michael R. Bernstein Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:33:36 +0000 http://permakent.com/2009/08/21/the-right-fight-for-the-right/#comment-9924 "If by some miracle we could control the language of the political spectrum, I’d suggest using “up” for freedom (as in free floating, like in a balloon, in space or heaven) and “down” for the hellish nightmare of tyranny and statism. This is in accord with the so-called Nolan chart already used by the L.P." I like this terminology. In particular, it allows constructions like "Upper Left" and "Lower Right", as well as hairsplitting constructions like "Upper Middle" and even "Middle Right". “If by some miracle we could control the language of the political spectrum, I’d suggest using “up” for freedom (as in free floating, like in a balloon, in space or heaven) and “down” for the hellish nightmare of tyranny and statism. This is in accord with the so-called Nolan chart already used by the L.P.”

I like this terminology. In particular, it allows constructions like “Upper Left” and “Lower Right”, as well as hairsplitting constructions like “Upper Middle” and even “Middle Right”.

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