Explained liberal and conservative to my 10 yo and 7 yo on the way to school. I ended up describing them as forms of bias that each produced distinctive patterns of error when they hit the truth.
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"forms of bias" is accurate I think, but I'd balance it by framing them more simply as heuristics. Like all heuristics, they are 'biased.' "bias" suggests there's a neutral alternative. There isn't. Heuristics (and therefore bias from simplification) is necessary.
Liberal and conservative are both effectively "package tours." The neutral alternative is to make up your own mind about individual issues. Sometimes you'll end up on the left, sometimes on the right. The average of your positions will be somewhere in the middle.
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Can do the same with ritualized stories and religions
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It is more likely what you call neutral is just a third, less popular package tour.
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Agreed - you're using the terms differently than me (both accurately). I'm using "liberal" and "conservative" not as policy position baskets, but as follows: conservative: time-tested wisdom of the crowds should be trusted, life isn't perfectable. Liberal -
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2/ liberal - through accumulated learning, human coordination, and technology, life can get better with no limit. (not perfectly phrased, but hopefully you get my point.)
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There's nothing guaranteing that both equally right and wrong and at the same scale. Can't you be sometimes on the right, sometimes on the left but not average in the middle?
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That's why I said somewhere in the middle rather than simply in the middle. On the other hand, I would not be surprised if there is some phenomenon causing right and left to be roughly equally wrong. It often feels that way.
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