View source for 2006-03-12 The Ultimate Goal

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<let name=data index=Date>2006-03-12</let>
<let name=data index=Author>David Brin</let>
<let name=data index=Source>Libertarian Reform Caucus</let>
<let name=data index=Topics>\political ideologies\archive.org/links\utopia\libertarianism</let>
<let name=data index=URL>http://web.archive.org/web/20071010180026/www.reformthelp.org/rights/moderation/goal.php</let>
<let name=data index=Title>The Ultimate Goal</let>
<let name=data index=TitlePlain>The Ultimate Goal</let>
<let name=data index=Text><blockquote>
<p>In [[2006-02-18 Models, Maps and Visions of Tomorrow|the previous section]], we covered a short list of unconventional questions designed to avoid the stereotyped totems of typical political argument, and instead dive much deeper, to explore root attitudes. No doubt there are many other questions which might illuminate the opinions of diverse people heretofore trapped by the old, linear ([[left-right political axis|left v. right]]) model. The objective was to provide room so that differences and quirks, as well as various styles of madness, might stand alone for inspection, unshaded and unsheltered by their neighbors.</p>

<p>But let's say you don't have this checklist with you. Say you've forgotten (or don't particularly agree with!) the multi-dimensional models described in the previous section. Is there one simple question you can ask, to get a good idea where another person is coming from politically?</p></let>

<let name=data index=TextShort>A single question for determining someone's [[political ideology]]: &ldquo;If you had your way, and your revolution succeeded, what would the world of your great-grandchildren be like, in a hundred or two hundred or a thousand years?&rdquo;</let>
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