(December 28, 2011 at 3:28 pm)conservapedia Wrote: The worst college majors are fields of study that leave the student with... (an) ultra-liberal view of the world.

Thank God I got a business degree where I received a fair and balanced view of the world and learned about how the markets perform with perfect efficiency. No bubbles inflated by hype here. No sir. The almighty Invisible Hand never errs and brings prosperity to all if only we could get rid of these meddling government regulations.

My wife works at a business school and that descritption of their views is quite accurate DP. They seem to be under the impression that businesses left to their own devices and little to no government would bring about some sort of economical utopia.

All praise the Invisible Hand!

(December 29, 2011 at 11:45 am)DeistPaladin Wrote:

(December 28, 2011 at 3:28 pm)conservapedia Wrote: The worst college majors are fields of study that leave the student with... (an) ultra-liberal view of the world.

Thank God I got a business degree where I received a fair and balanced view of the world and learned about how the markets perform with perfect efficiency. No bubbles inflated by hype here. No sir. The almighty Invisible Hand never errs and brings prosperity to all if only we could get rid of these meddling government regulations.

LOL, I know there is humor in your post, but I have always laughed at the "invisble hand of the market" suggestion. In reality you can never have a completely socialist or capitalist society. Things will always tug back and forth in the market, which means it is damn near impossible to predict unless you get insider trading information from those powerful enough to influence a great portion of the market.

(December 29, 2011 at 11:11 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Wow R, whats going on..this is like the 5th comment you have made in a row where I am in 100% agreement with you.

I hope that I can extend the favor to you as well

Yet more proof I'm not a "conservative" as some other people here seem to think.

(December 29, 2011 at 12:45 pm)Tiberius Wrote:

(December 29, 2011 at 11:11 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Wow R, whats going on..this is like the 5th comment you have made in a row where I am in 100% agreement with you.

I hope that I can extend the favor to you as well

Yet more proof I'm not a "conservative" as some other people here seem to think.

Agreed.

I am also beginning to realize that concepts such as "left / right" tend to make less since on the libertarian and anarchist side of the spectrum. They still apply, but not much in the same way that moderate or authoritarian political views see them as.

This is why I think the "Nolan Chart" (which holds similarities with the "Political Compass" chart) is a better indication of where you stand on the political spectrum.

I don't like where the Nolan Chart puts me at all! Centrist Libertarian?? On what fucking planet?

"Libertarian" has more than one meaning. You are probably more of a socialist Libertarian (left-libertarian) like reverendjeremiah. In other words, you think the government should stay out of people's lives (in terms of letting people do drugs, marry whomever they want, etc) but that the government should still have some control of the economy. Or I could be wrong...

Yep. That's me.

Then this might interest you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism

The whole "left-right" illusion of politics needs to end. There are far more examples of political thought than you can fit into two generic categories.