Do you consider yourself democrat, republican or neither?
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Neither. One party is too weak and the other is too extreme. But I don't have much of an interest in politics anyway, since no matter who gets elected, nothing changes. Fundamentally politicians are all the same
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I'm going to assume you are asking for peoples alignment on the political spectrum (unless the question is specifically for Americans). I personally don't fit in anywhere on the political spectrum and have very unconventional views and approaches to social, economic and political problems. Although I would probably identify with the right if it was a choice between the right/left.
The political left and sometimes the right use various terms these days to describe the worldview/position that Id fit in: most notably "scientism" in a derogatory sense (used mostly by the obscurantist academic left) and sometimes more neutrally, "scientific materialism".
The individual that I guess my worldview is most similar to is the American Biologist E.O. Wilson who once defined scientific materialism as the following: The view that all phenomena in the universe including the human mind, have a material basis, are subject to the same physical laws, and can be most deeply understood by scientific analysis.
What is unusual and distinctive about this position in the theoretical is that we take empirical and mostly biological approaches to the social sciences (the literature on the social sciences from a biological/evolutionary perspective has undergone something of a Cambrian explosion in the past few decades), and we believe that this burgeoning knowledge about human nature ought to inform policy.
The political left and sometimes the right use various terms these days to describe the worldview/position that Id fit in: most notably "scientism" in a derogatory sense (used mostly by the obscurantist academic left) and sometimes more neutrally, "scientific materialism".
The individual that I guess my worldview is most similar to is the American Biologist E.O. Wilson who once defined scientific materialism as the following: The view that all phenomena in the universe including the human mind, have a material basis, are subject to the same physical laws, and can be most deeply understood by scientific analysis.
What is unusual and distinctive about this position in the theoretical is that we take empirical and mostly biological approaches to the social sciences (the literature on the social sciences from a biological/evolutionary perspective has undergone something of a Cambrian explosion in the past few decades), and we believe that this burgeoning knowledge about human nature ought to inform policy.
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I don't identify with a political party, but I'm definitely a social liberal and a fiscal conservative.
So people can do what they want, the government needs to stay out of our business and let us decide how to spend our own money.
So people can do what they want, the government needs to stay out of our business and let us decide how to spend our own money.