Left vs Right
source : link Is it relevant in today's world? The directions “Left” and “Right” come from a cute historical quirk which is irrelevant to today’s political discussion. Yet, their directionality implies an important dimension of political discussion. We quickly find out that this dimension has no definition, no units, no middle, and no terminals. The scale that means the most to people — Freedom vs. Slavery — has no linear relationship to Left-Right. This “dimension” has no meaning, and thus provides no information. It sorely needs to be replaced. We need dimensions that mean something about politics. Let us look at the “ State of World Liberty ”. It measures countries along the dimension of “freedom” versus “authoritarian”. Each country is scored on two measures: Economic Freedom: who owns your labor and product of your labor Personal Freedom: who owns your body Y-Axis: Personal Freedom Dimension : At 0% personal freedom, the ruling class totally owns your body and your actions: th