Discovering there’s an authoritarian-libertarian horseshoe effect too, not just left-right. The political compass is an incomplete donut
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This is my favorite take on it, though donut might also be an appropriate topology.
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Political / memetic “horseshoe” theories are more elegantly expressed by the Borsuk-Ulam theorem, which basically states that a reduction of topological dimension guarantees the mapping of opposites to singular points.
If you observe a horseshoe, it implies relevant higher dims.
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Both agree that in peacetime best people should exit and worst people should be quarantined. In wartime the prescription flips









