The Spherical Model is an alternative way of looking at
political ideas, rather than right and left. There have been so many errors attached
to the right/left model that it’s hard to have a conversation about ideas related
to politics, economics, and culture.
Why is that needed? Take a look at this post from Louder
with Crowder today:
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| The article he links to is here. |
In case you can't read the fine print at the top that I’d like you to notice, it's this:
A super comprehensive post about the many, MANY, ways Hitler
was a socialist liberal. So stop calling him “right-wing” already.
A favorite tactic employed by leftists is to describe the
Nazis as “right wing,” with Adolf Hitler, their leader, as the grand champion
of this “right wing” movement.
But thanks to this nifty thing called “history” in
combination with “the internet” we can bust this myth once and for all. Thoroughly.
Or until a leftist insists on ignoring it. Then we’ll hold them down and tape
their eyes open. Just kidding, that’s only what a leftist would do….
It makes zero sense to talk about the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics and the National Socialist Party (Nazi) as opposites on a
political spectrum. They are at best slightly different flavors of the exact
same type of tyranny. But people ignore that and throw the Nazi or Hitler
epithet against those who disagree with them. There has to be a better way,
certainly, than left and right—especially when abiding by the US Constitution
gets called right-wing extremism.
So, yes, the Spherical Model is a better way. On the
Spherical Model, tyranny is opposite of freedom, so if a form of government, or
a policy, doesn’t follow the principles required for freedom, then it’s in the
southern hemisphere, where you find tyranny of all kinds. Where exactly depends
on whether the type of tyranny is statist or anarchic. If you’ve got two forms
of statist tyranny, they will be very close together on the sphere. It’s easily
visible.
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| Overlap of Fascism, Socialism, and Communism from this post |
I’ve written well over 800 posts, starting March 2011, all
under the heading of Spherical Model, with the subheading “Commentary on the
interrelationships of the political, economic, and social spheres.” The blog is
where we talk about how to apply the Spherical Model to what’s happening in our
world. The three spheres interrelate, and that often becomes evident in the
real world.
But I’m not really about commenting on world, national, and
local politics. There are plenty of people doing that. I do political
philosophy [I define that here and more here], rather than political commentary. So
every now and then I review what the Spherical Model is.
The long version is on the website, SphericalModel.com,
divided into sections for the three overlapping spheres: political, economic,
and social. It’s about 50 pages of reading.
The short version is what I summarized at the end of 2014: “ThePolitical Sphere Is Round.” The political sphere explains the value of using a
sphere, rather than a spectrum line, most obviously, so we start with that
sphere.
There’s also a short video (9 minutes), explaining it
visually, which, when you’re dealing with three dimensions, is helpful—even though
it’s about the lowest budget video on the internet.
A year ago, in a post like this one, to clarify what the
Spherical Model is, I summarized the principles for each of the three spheres.
The Spherical Model is what I call the world’s smallest
think tank. It’s made up of me, and any input I get from my three adult
children, who happen to have interests and abilities that coincide with the
three spheres, so I refer to them as Political Sphere, Economic Sphere, and
Social Sphere. A few times I’ve had Political Sphere write a guest post. I keep
hoping he’ll do more of that. Mr. Spherical Model supports the effort by
providing for the website.
I’ve done some “best of” and other collections:
I’ll add a few “bests” from 2017
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