Ok, these are clearly huge generalisations but: conservatives are practical types. Centrists dislike conflict. Nationalists are angry. Libertarians are loners. Socialists are often intelligent but empathetic. Communists & left-wing anarchists are generally even more intelligent and highly unusual, the kind of people you can have fascinating drunken conversations with. In short, if you mapped the Myers-Briggs spectrum onto the political compass in a certain way, there'd be some massively positively correlation.
I'm a prime example of this too, admittedly. I'm not even sure whether my personality dictates my politics or my politics dictates my personality, ha. In my personal life, I'm about as independent as it's possible to be: I moved out at 16, been working since 13, dislike monogamous relationships etc. It follows, therefore, that I'd value freedom highly in politics as it's how I like to live my own life. Deterministically, it was inevitable that I'd be an anarcho-capitalist.
Taking the theory further, do we just invent supposedly rational arguments to support our own ideas of the good life? Reading political philosophy texts, it certainly seems that way. Plato & Rawls are particularly culpable. Is there even such a thing as logic anyway? So, like most things, political philosophy is probably fairly pointless. Good thing I'm planning on devoting my life to it then, oops.
Actually, I have a plan for my gravestone inscription (who wants the mundane wife/daughter/mother bullshit ?):
"A female version of Murray Rothbard.
A capitalist version of Karl Marx.
A less ridiculous version of Ayn Rand.
A less authoritarian (and hotter) version of Margaret Thatcher."
Well, it's either going to be that or a Smiths lyric.
Now I just have to fulfil my morbid (in more ways than one, I'm sure, ha) ambitions.
Hmm, on that cheery note, I'll sign off.
Thanks for reading, anyone who does/has :)
