The Cellar - View Single Post

Undertoad · 03-02-2012, 08:10 PM

People's politics are totally informed from their psychology.

I know mine was. As an only child without a father, and with a kinda hippie mom -- I wound up fiercely independent, a contrarian, hating the authority of my parent, and demanding to forge my own road in every way possible.

This is a libertarian. But what if dad had survived his lung cancer and mom had popped out a baby sister? My psychology would be much different. Maybe I'd be more nurturing. Or maybe my sibling would be much younger, and I would wind up partly raising her, and thus wind up more authoritarian. This would probably make my politics different.

But how I personally wound up, does not necessarily make for the right formula for an entire nation. Actually, it seems unfair that my fucked-up childhood makes me want other people to be governed differently.

03-02-2012, 08:10 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Your politics is your psychology People's politics are totally informed from their psychology. I know mine was. As an only child without a father, and with a kinda hippie mom -- I wound up fiercely independent, a contrarian, hating the authority of my parent, and demanding to forge my own road in every way possible. This is a libertarian. But what if dad had survived his lung cancer and mom had popped out a baby sister? My psychology would be much different. Maybe I'd be more nurturing. Or maybe my sibling would be much younger, and I would wind up partly raising her, and thus wind up more authoritarian. This would probably make my politics different. But how I personally wound up, does not necessarily make for the right formula for an entire nation. Actually, it seems unfair that my fucked-up childhood makes me want other people to be governed differently.