Time for a "FAR CENTER" Party!
I have always been an independent and a "centrist" and am of course acutely frustrated by what is happening in the world, so I been developing an idea for forming what I call (tongue in cheek? Tongue stuck out? Tongue and groove?) "The Far Center Party" Why "Far Center"? How does it counter "Far Right and Far Left"? And what does it even mean? It isn't just a cute or provocative phrase my students and I are coming up with. It is a matter of a fresh perspective from "Nexus Thinking". We’re taught to imagine politics on a one dimensional number line: left, center, right. And the far left and far right are at the extreme ends. A slightly better 2D model turns that line into a circle — where we can at least better see that these extremes meet and arguments repeat. But what if the real mistake is thinking of politics as a flat manifold at all? The "Far Center" adds a vertical and vortical dimension: perspective, systems thin...
