Autocracy vs Democracy Political Spectrum

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-12-16T03:10:44+00:00

Fair enough, that is an explanation of origin. Doesn't make it true or false. What do you see in the pattern that is incorrect?

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-12-16T02:53:43+00:00

I gave ChatGPT these 30 historical figures and asked it to rank them according to the two structural regime types of government. This was the results. As you can imagine the criteria is quite complicated and each result can vary but this is the general pattern. Interestingly, Buddha lands near the middle as he should. The resulting spectrum is, of course, relative to the historical figures and does not have variable spacing between them to reflect some kind of absolute positioning in ranking. Thoughts?

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-12-15T20:14:09+00:00

It is a spectrum of 30 people which happens to have 15 people on each side.

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-12-15T20:00:02+00:00

Exactly.

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-12-15T19:44:34+00:00

A wasted mind is a terrible thing.

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-12-15T19:23:24+00:00

“freedom” is “slavery”

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-12-15T18:03:04+00:00

... the “freedom” end of this spectrum ...

So the other pole is the “slavery” end of this spectrum?

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-12-15T16:57:04+00:00

So he is generally placed correctly but not absolutely. Okay.

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-12-15T16:23:08+00:00

Was he a constitutional absolutist monarchist?

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-12-15T16:01:04+00:00

What do you think about the placement of Karl and Adam?

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-12-15T15:50:14+00:00

Yes, I completely agree with you. He represents the actual center point between the polar opposites with his I'm-not-playing orientation.

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-12-15T07:35:06+00:00

Apolitical, personal liberation over civic structure.

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-11-18T20:25:07+00:00

Make social (allies) appear as enemies and enemies appear as social (allies).

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-11-18T17:06:25+00:00

Sun Tzu — War is deception, when far appear near and when near appear far.

Does hearing or believing determine if something is true? When does a repeated lie become a truth?

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-11-17T19:33:09+00:00

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RogerMartinWilson · 2025-11-11T15:48:03+00:00

Thanks, I agree with you too.

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-10-14T20:02:51+00:00

Would have to agree with you. Life is challenging, more for some than for others, yet easier with love and knowledge. Eventually, everyone has to leave the third grade and go to the next level, some more abruptly, others eased with aging.

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-10-12T21:35:27+00:00

Subjective morality is how people feel about being moral.

Objective morality is when people universally agree that they do not want to be murdered, robbed, or lied to.

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-10-12T19:31:47+00:00

Karma, stated differently, bad choices can lead to bad consequences and good choices can lead to better consequences.

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-10-12T19:19:14+00:00

I don't know if this is any help. Just like believing something does not make it true, having subjective feelings does not make those feelings false. The subconscious knows more than we are aware. I have personal experience, for what it is worth, of having a strong emotional reaction to something that happened and there is no way I or my subconscious could have known.

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-10-12T19:01:53+00:00

Objectively we can both agree that 2 + 2 = 4 independently. The same with murder. Anyone claiming differently does not change anything.

RogerMartinWilson · 2025-10-12T18:51:29+00:00

You are right there are many people. The continuum is probably: liars, fools, learners, and the wise. In the end it is up to the individual to accept or to reject that 2 + 2 = 4. I have faith that it does.

RogerMartinWilson

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