The reason that Michael finds similarities at opposite ends of his single scale and vast differences among those at the same end is that his scale is fallacious. What he's actually doing with these observations is to cite evidence that the scale itself fails as a predictive model.
If you know den Beste, you know that's not all he has to say. May he live forever.
He links a post by Clayton Jones, adding another dimension:
Steven Den Beste on political axes. One of the axes he identifies is:
realism----idealism
I think, based on the use he makes of it later, that he has misidentified it.
My first thought was, he should split it into two axes:
pessimist----optimist
chaotic----systematic
--ending with: "Thanks, Steven. I'm looking forward to watching this discussion percolate through the blogosphere."
This is my steam-bubble.
BTW I've talked about this before in a comment linked to this post (Damn! HaloScan seems to be having server troubles.) and linked this extensive discussion of same at Friesian.com.
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