| Jaicee said: All I can say is, wow! Thanks for the effort you put into doing these aggregations of the VGC political opinion (and for sharing some of your own perspective in more detail too)! I didn't expect that. A nice addition to the thread! The interpretation of the data you provide that I get is that the small sampling of VGC contributors who've posted here so far overall tends to favor expanding political democracy rather than reducing it or keeping it more or less as is, that we tend to have somewhat similar views regarding the value of separating church and state, that in the great "nationalism vs. globalism" debate, this community tends to embrace a range of relatively more nationalistic perspectives (sorry Davos devotees), that law enforcement is generally valued here, and that probably our biggest disagreements are over the broad questions of preferable economics, technology, and the broader culture wars. The average opinion seems to be slightly left-of-center on economics, with the two of us being the only net socialists (and being somewhat different sorts of socialists at that). And I seem to have an absolute monopoly on concern for social justice, suggesting that, ironically, I may be the most woke person here despite all my gripes about wokeness. That's embarrassing. Anyway, where does that leave us on a more traditional left-right spectrum? I don't know. The average of views here so far definitely isn't strictly left wing or right wing, nor strictly liberal or conservative, and it's not a combination that's commonly represented by political parties. |
I seem to the only one who's willing to slow down "human progress" over disparate impacts and such. Maybe I'm still more of an airhead than I even realize.We're on a gaming website, so not that surprising embracing technology comes out on top in our small sample. We're all tech literate and tech curious here, and probably know more about AI and its implementations than most people. Both the advantages and the dangers.
And we're also in the top 10% of the world if not in the top 1%. Slowing down progress for social justice isn't the biggest thing on the radar here, as well as economic reform. Let's face it, we're on the top, generally not having to worry about where our next meal comes from or whether we're still going to have a roof over out heads.
But the actual top is still obscenely far away, some more push back against giant corporations and billionaire greed would be nice.
