The Sphere of Politics


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Figure I

The Sphere of Politics
The delirium of the world of the pure ideological is a space that is a
construct however it is a space where opinions make more sense than
logical facts. I hope that it comes to no surprise that facts are not always
logically intuitive. For many individuals the subjectivity of political theory is
fascinating. The power of the rhetoric of a political ideology can influence just
about anything in the realm of the human civilization. Natural phenomena such
as gravity and the seeming magic qualities of mathematics are out of the grasp
of any human being. Part of the appeal of the hard sciences is that the rigour of
physics is out of reach for a majority of ordinary people. This leaves physics
in the hands of a select few. The pristine nature of the sciences makes the
realms of mathematics and physics unappealing.

In 2012 I realised how critical political science is. It occurred to me that politics
is much more like a sphere than like a Euclidean graph (that is split into four
quadrants) shown in Figure I.  For instance, when one moves to the right of
the spectrum, one tends to hate (big) government. If one shrinks government
enough then one might see it dissolves. This resolution of any government
could turn into a system of anarchy. Anarchy is not exactly what those in
the media world is in reality. The media has portrayed systems of anarchy
as being systems in which there is only a high level of entropy and no
one is in charge to restrain the levels of crime. People go mad and
everyone kills each other in the streets. This is not factually correct, nor
is it historically correct. The anarchist is known to be one who is
left leaning- an anarchist is an egalitarian who tend to believe that
people, naturally do good things. There are other interesting
examples. I have not heard of any other notion of a “sphere”
used in the political realm.

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