Friday, August 09, 2013
Basis vectors
I've asked many times: Why do leftists love JFK and hate Reagan and Nixon? The three men are identical ideologically. All were hard-line anti-Soviet, all were strongly pro-corporate, all were soft on 'cultural' matters. Reagan and Nixon created a cynically false pro-Christian and pro-family verbal front, but in practice both cheerfully allowed Satan to roar forward at full speed. There's no reason for each political side to distinguish among these men. Economic leftists should hate all three, corporatists and anti-communists and fairies and feminists should love all three.
New thought: Though they were identical in political terms, they were perfectly different in personality. In fact these three men constitute an orthogonal set of compass points or basis vectors for personality.
JFK: Gold-standard extrovert. Needed people around at all times; brilliant manipulator; used his fame and charisma to milk every drop of sex and power and adoration from the crowd.
Nixon: Absolute introvert. Didn't like people, didn't need people, didn't understand human strategies and social structures.
Reagan: Ideal mesovert. Didn't need people but liked them when they happened to be around; knew how to manipulate them but wasn't compulsively required to use his fame as a tool.
Artistic sidenote: I was NOT trying for the effect, but this picture turned out to be a pretty good two-way illusion. Is the origin the farthest or nearest point? Flip/flop/flip/flop....
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Artistic sidenote: I was NOT trying for the effect, but this picture turned out to be a pretty good two-way illusion. Is the origin the farthest or nearest point? Flip/flop/flip/flop....
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