2006-03-12 The Ultimate Goal

2006-03-12 David Brin Libertarian Reform Caucus \political ideologies\archive.org/links\utopia\libertarianism http://web.archive.org/web/20071010180026/www.reformthelp.org/rights/moderation/goal.php The Ultimate Goal The Ultimate Goal  In the previous section, we covered a short list of unconventional questions designed to avoid the stereotyped totems of typical political argument, and instead dive much deeper, to explore root attitudes. No doubt there are many other questions which might illuminate the opinions of diverse people heretofore trapped by the old, linear (left v. right) model. The objective was to provide room so that differences and quirks, as well as various styles of madness, might stand alone for inspection, unshaded and unsheltered by their neighbors.

But let's say you don't have this checklist with you. Say you've forgotten (or don't particularly agree with!) the multi-dimensional models described in the previous section. Is there one simple question you can ask, to get a good idea where another person is coming from politically? Complete text: David Brin/The Ultimate Goal

A single question for determining someone's political ideology: &ldquo;If you had your way, and your revolution succeeded, what would the world of your great-grandchildren be like, in a hundred or two hundred or a thousand years?&rdquo;   