If you turn the wheel 360° you end up right back where you started

And I be like

Neat! It's like a choose your own adventure for goverance, complete with such gems of Orwellian doublespeak as "libertarian police state" and "tolerant republicanism". They're needed to complete the rubrik but are about as philosophically coherent as the statement "this sentence is a lie".

Still, I tip my hat to whomever compiled that, and thank you for sharing it!

They're more accurate and descriptive than the one-dimensional left/right spectrum.

Agreed.

There should be a model that plots methodology, and wraps around to form a cylinder. The extremes tend to be distinguishable only by their claimed values, which are functionally missing.

That still seems two-, rather than three-, dimensional. Centrism can be authoritarian too, and what the center is is subjective. I think enantiodromia explains it better than the horseshoe theory.

I like it: moderation in all things, including moderation. Militant neutrality. Perhaps "forced balance" is a better term, though to your point, balanced against what?

Enantiodromia explains the corkscrewing of values from one generation to the next more comprehensively than my assertion that the urge to rebel is inherent in youth, leading them to reject whatever status quo they experience growing up.

It seems to me that
rightism, leftism, and especially centrism are forms of metaphorically trying to lock society's steering wheel in one direction, and that most of humanity's wars result from struggles to keep changes from taking place. Adam Curtis's documentary HyperNormalization talks about neoliberals' belief in a "steady-state society" and the "end of history." I think a lot of problems would be solved by making it easier to remove heads of states, move borders, and change laws.

I absolutely agree, I'm just waaaaay too cynical to see it happening.

What I can see happening, perhaps naively, is another civil war thinning the herd.

Oh yeah, I think civil wars are likely all over the world once climate change hits and the food chain collapses. And that will force people to adopt a radically different form of civilization.

Our thin veneer of "civilization" is one food delivery truck away from reverting back to the way humanity has conducted itself throughout most of history.

Let's hope we haven't seen humanity's heights, and things will only be worse until we go extinct.

Hope in one hand, shit in the other and see which one fills up first. 😞