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01459: Re: [WDDM] Deciding the future course of action

From: "Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan" <vijayaraghavan.p(at)rediffmail.com>
Date: 23 Aug 2007 14:27:16 -0000
Subject: Re: [WDDM] Deciding the future course of action


Dear Mirek, Mark and all,
The political compass deepens our understanding of politics and I am happy that I got the link at the right time. When I suggested that we assess ourselves and display the results when everyone was done with it, I was thinking that the result would confirm my feeling that most of the people who have the true spirit of democracy would find themselves as libertarian left. As expected Mirek, Mark, Giorgio and myself have found ourselves to be libertarian left. I suggest other members of the WDDM also do it and inform whether I am right.

In other words, those having the true spirit of democracy have a particular profile that has been brought out by the political compass, brilliantly designed. Cheers to the designers. Another thing that is striking is that most of the people who are influential and are in power in today's world are all placed diametrically opposite - that is authoritarian right.

Mark's suggestion that the compass could have included the perspective towards democracy that one believes in is fine. It is indirectly indicated by the position - those who are truly democratic would most probably be libertarian left. However Mark differentiates between people deciding and leader deciding, which seems to be the crux of the problem that is haunting us. I have been suggesting that we view perspective towards democracy as people in control vs party in control.
I request Mark to review the matter.

The task is cut out for those who have the true spirit of democracy. We have to forget our minor differences and agree on a common action plan and we should be able to do it. (Posting this in the proposal forum - Mirek, posting in forum can automatically be posted on the wiki. The reverse need not be there)

PVR


On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 MKolar wrote :
>PVR,
>  I am not sure exactly what conclusions you want to draw from a graph of member positions on the political compass. But I agree that it may be an interesting experiment to do. I suggest that you collect the political-compass coordinates of all the members that are willing to send them to you, and you can then try to draw some conclusions from it, and report back to us.
>
>Mirek
>
>P.S. I agree with mark antell that one more dimension (perspective toward democracy) in the political compass could be useful.
>
>
>Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan wrote:
>>
>>  Dear Mirek and all,
>>There is a feeling that it is time we decided whether WDDM is going to be a predominantly discussion group or it is going to be a group with a definite program of action. One reason for the on-going discussion is that we have diverse outlooks and differences in opinion come to the fore when the line of action has to be decided.
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>>There needs to be a right balance of agreement and disagreement of views within a group for it to successfully proceed with an action plan. Extreme differences as well as total similarity in views are both detrimental for healthy constructive action.
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>>I am giving below a link that can indicate to a person regarding which political ideology he/she by nature belongs to: http://www.politicalcompass.org/
>>I suggest that the members of WDDM go to it and find out their position. Members can inform the result to the WDDM, where it can be displayed as a chart or a graph. The result can be kept secret till most of the members have done with it. This will prevent undue influence on other members and avoid false impressions.
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>>Eventually this assessment can pave the way for taking a sensible decision on our future course of action. I am posting this on the proposal forum as well.
>>
>>PVR
>>
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