yeah, I feel that there is some form of bias apparent in the orientation of traditional/secular axis. If the authors really liked conservative social values, I'm sure it would be flipped about the horizontal axis and we'd all be thinking "move to puerto rico"
i like how we've admitted a bias in "traditional vs. secular" but we both seem to have generally assumed that "self-expression" is more valuable than "survival".
I think it'd be hard to argue that the ability to focus on self-expression is preferable to having to worry about where your next meal (or bullet) is coming from. But I do think that there is a limit to that, and at some point comfort and safety have diminishing returns (idle spoiled youth growing into self-centered adults, for example). So, yeah, I'm not 100% convinced about taking the whole human experience and reducing it to two axes, although it is certainly an interesting graphic.
the beautiful thing about reductionism is simply its ability to take thousands of years and hundreds of countries, civilizations, ethnicities, religions, and histories and turn it into a multicolored graph with grandiose pretensions and an "ex-communist" label.
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