I think the political spectrum doesn’t quite line up with this. For basically any point on the compass, there will be things that should be managed in a decentralized way following Commercial precepts, and things that should be managed in a centralized way following Guardian precepts. The question is just which activities fall in which bucket. [Is medicine a good that should be bought and sold like any other, or largesse which should be dispensed?]
But some sets of choices will be more synergistic or more contradictory than others; applying this technique to the political spectrum might identify a few good clusters and a bunch of worse hybrids. [Given that politics is mostly about coalitions and loyalty instead of technical coherence, my guess is this won’t be super useful.]
The political spectrum is quite orthogonal to this. You’ve got communist Guardians who want to protect the means of production and share out all the goods along with Commercial communists who think that if we just sit down and decide to all work together we’ll come up with plans that will equally enrich everyone. Or fundamentalist Guardians who just want to ensure everyone’s purity along with Commercial fundamentalists who are arguing among themselves as to what’s the best way of interpreting a single word in the Bible.
It might be more useful to compare this with Scout and Soldier mindsets, which seem to be pointing in vaguely the same direction, but in the area of epistemics, rather than morals.
I think the political spectrum doesn’t quite line up with this. For basically any point on the compass, there will be things that should be managed in a decentralized way following Commercial precepts, and things that should be managed in a centralized way following Guardian precepts. The question is just which activities fall in which bucket. [Is medicine a good that should be bought and sold like any other, or largesse which should be dispensed?]
But some sets of choices will be more synergistic or more contradictory than others; applying this technique to the political spectrum might identify a few good clusters and a bunch of worse hybrids. [Given that politics is mostly about coalitions and loyalty instead of technical coherence, my guess is this won’t be super useful.]
The political spectrum is quite orthogonal to this. You’ve got communist Guardians who want to protect the means of production and share out all the goods along with Commercial communists who think that if we just sit down and decide to all work together we’ll come up with plans that will equally enrich everyone. Or fundamentalist Guardians who just want to ensure everyone’s purity along with Commercial fundamentalists who are arguing among themselves as to what’s the best way of interpreting a single word in the Bible.
It might be more useful to compare this with Scout and Soldier mindsets, which seem to be pointing in vaguely the same direction, but in the area of epistemics, rather than morals.
ah, then maybe I’m misunderstanding at a deeper level. I will abstain from further comment for now.