On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote:
As I stated in my previous post the Nolan chart is flawed. In it's attempts to be "two-dimensional" it artificially separates interdependent philosophies. Economic Freedom = Personal Freedom. You can not have one without the other. The major failings of the socialist is their unwillingness to accept this fact. A free society can not survive under a socialist regime any more that a totalitarian society can survive under a capitalist one.
I agree with your assessment of the interdependence of economic freedom and personal freedom. But the Nolan chart itself is not flawed - the political belief systems that it describes are flawed. That is, any political belief system that advocates different levels of governmental control for the two - that belief system is flawed. The Nolan chart does a much better job of describing them than the traditional left-right spectrum does. Nor have I seen a better descriptive device. Incidentally, here is my score: Your Personal Self-Government Score is 100%. Your Economic Self-Government Score is 100%. ______________________________________________________________________ Jon Galt e-mail: jongalt@pinn.net website: http://www.pinn.net/~jongalt/ PGP public key available on my website. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ______________________________________________________________________