{"id":102,"date":"2007-01-19T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T15:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=102"},"modified":"2007-01-19T17:13:03","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T15:13:03","slug":"the-political-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"The Political Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/redstarcoven.blogspot.com\/\">Walton<\/a> (who happily seems to be blogging again), I came across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalcompass.org\">Political Compass<\/a> website. It contains a test categorising one&#8217;s social and economic beliefs. Perhaps it&#8217;s my <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalcompass.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/lust-for-certainty.html\">lust for certainty<\/a> that provides the attraction for tests like these.<\/p>\n<p>So, to box myself for those who&#8217;re interested, I scored -6.88 on the Economic Left\/Right scale, and -6.67 on the Social Libertarian\/Authoritarian scale. That puts me in the bottom left corner, closer to the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela than George Bush, Robert Mugabe or Hitler, I&#8217;m happy to say.<\/p>\n<p>Tecnorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/politics\" rel=\"tag\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/politicalcompass\" rel=\"tag\">politicalcompass<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Walton (who happily seems to be blogging again), I came across the Political Compass website. It contains a test categorising one&#8217;s social and economic beliefs. Perhaps it&#8217;s my lust for certainty that provides the attraction for tests like these. So, to box myself for those who&#8217;re interested, I scored -6.88 on the Economic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=102\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Political Compass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}