A few days ago reader Petal alerted GrodsCorp to a bizarre post on the Andrew Bolt forum, wondering if The Editor was responsible:

From: John Kriesfeld
Comment: There is merit in the circular theory of political ideologies and the shortfall can be corrected (is this political correctness?) by taking it one step further and making it into a globe. The various ideologies can now fan out and cascade between the two poles. As for anarchy, this will appear as the moon on the model, circling the globe and influencing the political climate in the same way that the moon influences the tides (hence the tides of change).

Andrew replies: Er, OK.

Although The Editor wasn’t responsible, he decided that it was a perfect seed for the next Bolta baiting attempt. Putting on his nonsense cap, closing his eyes and punching randomly at the keyboard, Ed provoked his best Bolta response yet:

From: Werner
Comment: Andrew, it was disappointing to see you dismiss John Kriesfeld’s comments about global theories of political ideologies so flippantly. There is much that you could take from this theory and incorporate into your own writings, given they draw from, and interact with, socio-political thought and policy in Victoria and Australia so heavily. With ideologies fanning between poles of the global (and spherical) political spectrum and your writings spanning the arcs between the traditional “right” and “left” there is an obvious convergence that you must better harness if you are to take your ideas and theories and make them truly palatable to the whole community. However, with convergence occurring in a curved environment it is much harder to plot than if it occurred on a plane.

One last word of advice, Andrew. As John was trying to warn you (if only you would see…) beware the Moon of Anarchy, with its power to warp the political fabric of the global ideological environment. You must carefully consider the stage of the Anarchy tide with each utterance and success in this area would certainly allow wider acceptance of your transcendental views.

Andrew replies: Werner, let me respond to those parts of your post I understand. First, it is impossible to make any political or ideological idea, let alone my own, “palatable to the whole community”, and you’d have to be megalomaniacal to even attempt it. Second, there is no arc between Left and Right – the extremes of both tend to huddle together at the collectivist end of a line that has anarchy at the other. I’m somewhere in the middle, moderate as always, trying to balance the claims of individuality and freedom with the ballast of the collective.

This diagram shows the two opposing theories of global political ideologies: