I had realised something very interesting a while ago.
Look at le political compass. Now look at the [in]famous AD&D moral alignment chart. See anything? (Apart from OP's awful photoshop skills?)
It is not that hard to notice that they are somewhat similar, main difference being that the one is discrete and the other is continous, but on its own this would mean very little. However, what really interesting is that they both had mutated in analogous, if not the exact same, way!
Both of these systems were initially made for a [two very different sets of] burger petit burgeous nerds. Both blew up globally way past just their intended audiences in the age of the Internet and became memes.
And what's most interesting: despite it not only being idealistic and not grounded in any material reality (by design) but also obviously lacking in dimensions to describe any sort of realistic worldview or a value system… D&D's 3x3 alignment chart was apparently found too complex for enough players that WotC in the later editions of the game had replaced it with 1x5 one-dimensional morality chart ("Lawful Good", "Good", "Neutral", "Evil", "Chaotic Evil") Yes, apparently D&D players are such retards that two dimensions is too many for them.
Now, for what had directly inspired me to make this post: a few months ago on reddit I saw a person complaining about a political compass being… too complex. When asked how they would classify ideologies then, the person replied with "There is only one real axis of ideology, so "Far left, Left, Centrist, Right, Far Right", the more left you are, the better, I am the Far Left because I am a lesbian atheist supporting full luxury space communism". I had checked a "lesbian atheist"'s account and saw her calling to "ban all Hamasnics" because "Israelis are innocent secular people defending themselves against barbaric Islamic fundamentalists". Today, I had checked her reddit account today and… found it suspended.
So, we have two separate cases where a 2D 3x3 quasi-ideological framework becaming popular, and then some extreme chud finding it too complicated and replacing it with a 1D 1x5 one instead. Which… isn't a lot, but isn't that weird that it happened twice so far?
1 post omitted.>>2205458If it was just "square matrices look like square matrices", I wouldn't have made this post. However,
>we have two separate cases where a 2D 3x3 quasi-ideological framework becaming popular, and then some extreme chud finding it too complicated and replacing it with a 1D 1x5 one instead. Which… isn't a lot, but isn't that weird that it happened twice so far?At the very least, it gives us some insight into the psychology of an extreme chud (or at least, its "libtard / pseudo-leftist" variety).