the political compass is a 2d graph, but is actually just fake science that doesn’t correspond to people’s politics.

Descartes thought about individuals as having hard borders and a discernable essence. This is the assumption that most anarchists have made through history.

Recently, it’s become popular to think about biomes of cells and microbes “holobiomes” rather than species. This is one attack on cartesian individualism.

In anthro, people have noticed that some people think about humans as having multiple distinct selves that come out in different social settings. This is called a “partible person.” this is another attack on cartesian individualism.

Another observation of anthro is that some people think of individuals as having one self, but that self can be combined with another self, especially during sex. This is the “permeable person”

This makes centering a politics around the freedom of an individual fairly problematic. Not impossible, just problematic.

You get what I’m saying?