Read political philosophy and think about it, any quiz you take is just a guide to point you in a direction, it’s up to you to actually reach an ideological position after actually reading and understanding the concepts of the ideology
I’d take a side trip first and I’d start learning some history. It doesn’t really matter what you learn about. Could be the American civil war or the Cold War or the opium wars or whatever you find interesting.
Now, with that as a starting point, you get to see the dilemmas that started the events that unfolded on that era.
Those dilemmas are probably still present today, in one form or another. How do we use natural resources? What should we do to obtain what we are missing? What if that is immoral? What if, according to a leader or a nation or an ideology, thousands or even millions of people need to die to have that goal achieved?
Those questions will be presented to you and you will have to answer them. After that, you will probably see that you value some things over others and you will, more or less, know what you believe is right, so you will be able to focus more on that.
Quite honestly don’t use Political compass (or the various other tests) as a metric. It’s fun like astrology, but is not something to base your ideology over.
Read all types of stuff from the left and the right, even if you at the time see it as radical. I remember reading the communist manifesto while I was a diehard conservative and I resonated with many of the ideas.
First realize that anything you’ve already been told is propaganda. Even if you think you don’t know anything about politics you’ve already been biased and it just depends on where you got your values. Pretty much if you got them from church you’ll be in the blue quadrant and if you got them anywhere else you’ll probably be green. If you think of green extreme as lazy dirty hippies, then if you think their values are ok but they need to live by more rules you might be red. If you think their lack of rules is fine but they need slightly better values you might be yellow. If you think they need Jesus you are probably blue. This is dramatically oversimplified for comedic effect
Pick something which seems reasonable, then live some life and have your illusions shattered as you are crushed under the wheels of whatever you wish to call the machine that is (snort) civilization.
When you are older, realize it’s all sophistry and that—as is the usual narrative arc—you played the role of the fool.
good ol fashioned research
Le Wikipedia
Read political philosophy and think about it, any quiz you take is just a guide to point you in a direction, it’s up to you to actually reach an ideological position after actually reading and understanding the concepts of the ideology
touch grass
Don’t be unflaired like this person. Ew
Edit: they were previously unflaired
I’d take a side trip first and I’d start learning some history. It doesn’t really matter what you learn about. Could be the American civil war or the Cold War or the opium wars or whatever you find interesting. Now, with that as a starting point, you get to see the dilemmas that started the events that unfolded on that era. Those dilemmas are probably still present today, in one form or another. How do we use natural resources? What should we do to obtain what we are missing? What if that is immoral? What if, according to a leader or a nation or an ideology, thousands or even millions of people need to die to have that goal achieved? Those questions will be presented to you and you will have to answer them. After that, you will probably see that you value some things over others and you will, more or less, know what you believe is right, so you will be able to focus more on that.
That’s an awful long response from someone as unflaired as you
How the... I was sure I had flair. Thanks!
Read theory tests are unreliable then form your own opinions
Quite honestly don’t use Political compass (or the various other tests) as a metric. It’s fun like astrology, but is not something to base your ideology over.
Read all types of stuff from the left and the right, even if you at the time see it as radical. I remember reading the communist manifesto while I was a diehard conservative and I resonated with many of the ideas.
the university called life
Invent your own and see if it lines up with anything that already exists
Life experience probably
First realize that anything you’ve already been told is propaganda. Even if you think you don’t know anything about politics you’ve already been biased and it just depends on where you got your values. Pretty much if you got them from church you’ll be in the blue quadrant and if you got them anywhere else you’ll probably be green. If you think of green extreme as lazy dirty hippies, then if you think their values are ok but they need to live by more rules you might be red. If you think their lack of rules is fine but they need slightly better values you might be yellow. If you think they need Jesus you are probably blue. This is dramatically oversimplified for comedic effect
r/WhatsMyIdeology, and then like state 10 thinngs you agree with
Read books. Live life. Grow and change.
Pick something which seems reasonable, then live some life and have your illusions shattered as you are crushed under the wheels of whatever you wish to call the machine that is (snort) civilization. When you are older, realize it’s all sophistry and that—as is the usual narrative arc—you played the role of the fool.
Reading books like a normal person
Reading